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Highlight the opening image of your piece
- Have you utilized all 5 senses?
- Made it as strong and memorable as possible?
- Does it evoke emotion?
- Is there symbolism relevant to theme and emotion?
- Write at least three alternative opening images & compare.
2. Analyse your opening line
- Is it emotive?
- Does it leave unanswered questions?
- How does it make it impossible for the reader to stop reading?
- Have you used the most powerful words possible?
- Write 10 alternative and compare.
3. Go though the first third of your piece and highlight where:
- You have introduced the protagonist
- Showed something vulnerable, intriguing, heroic about them
- The setting
- The conflict
- The theme
- The mood
- If these elements are absent, find a way to fit them in.
4. Are there areas where you are telling reader, not showing?
- Make the reader feel what your POVC is feeling
5. Is your mood consistent throughout the piece?
- Highlight words that underline mood in one color
- Highlight those that don’t fit/ detract from mood in another
- Rewrite the latter
6. Highlight all character arc areas, cut and paste just these in a new document
- Do they make sense?
- What is missing?
- Fill in the gaps?
7. Analyse Your closing image
- Have you utilized all 5 senses?
- Made it as strong and memorable as possible?
- Does it evoke emotion?
- Is there symbolism relevant to theme and emotion?
- Write at least three alternative opening images & compare.
8. Analyse your closing line
- What does it communicate, what is the reader left with?
- Is it a satisfying conclusion to the conflict/ question in your piece?
- Have you used the most powerful words possible?
- Write 10 alternative and compare.
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