1 – include the historical setting and period of literature.
2 – Summarize an idea, a character, or an event.
3 – Do research to get more information.
4 – Write notes about your fictionalized character, what is occurring, and what that person might feel and say.
5 – Visualize in your mind a scene and the exact words a character would feel and what the character would do in that event.
6 – Write a draft from a first-person point of view acting as that character and taking on the persona of that character.
7 – Add imagery that expresses the senses of sight, smell, touch, taste, and hearing as appropriate.
8 – Including the complete plot of a story is not necessary. However, the reader should be fully aware of the character’s conflict and feelings, the reactions to an event, and what the event is.
