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Trevor Brown Mrs. Martinez 4th period 3/27/16 Swipe File #9 Ten tips on how to write a good short story. This will be helpful to me because of the short story that we have to write. This should be a great way for me to get a better understanding about short stories and how to create them. Get Started : Emergency Tips Write a Catchy  First Paragraph Develop Your  Characters Choose a  Point of View Write Meaningful  Dialogue Use  Setting  and  Context Set up the  Plot Create  Conflict  and  Tension Build to a  Crisis  or a  Climax Deliver a  Resolution

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One of the easiest things in life to swipe from is the people around you. My younger brother asks me to paint his nails a different color every week but he is the star of his baseball team and plays video games every spare moment he has. My friend is obsessed with cars. He draws them, paints them, spends hours working on his own car. One night after we finished eating at a restaurant, he left to get his car while the rest of us paid, a minute later he dashed back in looking like he saw an angel but in reality it was only a Toyota supra. The elderly lady who lives two houses down, never fails to open the door every Monday and Wednesday saying, “Come in, come in dear,” somehow knowing it is me despite being legally blind. My mom once told my sister and I that girls use to brush their hair 100 times before they went to sleep to make it shiny. My sister tried one night, but fell asleep on the 62nd stroke. These characteristics of people may seem random and unimportant b...

Trevor Brown Mrs. Martinez March/21/17 4th Period Swipe File 8 Tell the story of a scar, whether a physical scar or emotional one . To be a writer, said Stephen King, “The only requirement is the ability to  remember every scar .” A group of c hildren discover a dead body.  Good writers don’t turn away from death, whic 8 h is, after all,  the  universal human experience. Instead, they look it directly into its dark face and describe what they see on the page. A young prodigy becomes orphaned . Orphans are uniquely vulnerable, and as such, they have the most potential for growth. A middle-aged woman discovers a ghost . What do Edgar Allen Poe, Ron Weasley, King Saul from the Bible, Odysseus, and Ebeneezer Scrooge have in common? They all encountered ghosts! A woman who is deeply in love is crushed when her fiancé breaks up with her.  “In life every ending is just a new beginning,” says Dakota Fan...

Hey, It's me, posting another swipe, this time I'm stealing a plan from Sanderson again, (he must be a great author or something XD). Anyway, I'm swiping his idea of the multiverse, I've been thinking about a way to incorporate all my characters into one story and I think I may have figured out how. Multiverse possibility Characters to choose from: Jase storyline, Rowan storyline, Cae, or Cae’s kid, (Oathrune story character) Altima storyline (Lianna) and more. Story: by defeating the evils on their worlds, they have inadvertently restored the Dark God of All Evil to life, now faced with an evil greater than any they have seen before, they must gather the other heroes and walk amongst the stars.

Ok, so the latest thing I’m gonna swipe is actually from the Flash and Steelheart (Brandon Sanderson). The following story incorporates Flash’s speed, and Steelhearts utopian era of ‘there are no heroes among supers’ Lianna, a superhuman with the power of speed, is part of a large community of supers known as Altima’s, nearly all of the Altima believe they are superior to Humans and essentially take over the world. Lianna feels deep regret for not standing up for the Humans, now Humanity is enslaved to the Altima society, with virtually no free will. Working for Van, an Altima with the power over fire, Lianna is sent to America, the last free place for humans, her mission is to kill and occupy a landing zone for the rest of the Altima’s assault. Upon her arrival, she is captured, when she wakes up in a cell, she discovers several other Altima watching her, these Altima have taken a new name, Omegon, their goal is to protect and save as many humans as they can. Unsure of whether s...

Swipe File #5 One Big Mess... Developing a Research Question Developing a Research Thesis Thesis Characteristics Finding Sources Evaluating Sources Taking Notes Working with Quotations Writing Summaries & Paraphrases Building the Essay Draft Documenting Sources Documentation Formats Revising and Proofreading the Draft This is useful to me because in  Socratic we are writing a research paper. And I always have trouble finding the layout for me that works. So with these steps it should help me quite a bit.