1.Make yourself the Hero–but try not to make the story all about you. This story is not a biography. It should be about your audience–your fellow classmates. What can they see in you that they can also see in themselves? How can your story–a snippet from your life–help them get what they want? Every story is about a character that wants something and has to overcome conflict to get it. Your story will resonate with others if it serves as a metaphor for their own lives. We all want things and experience challenges getting what we want. Your writing should serve as a guide to help them get what they want. They should be saying to themselves, He or she knows exactly how I feel or I know exactly what he or she is sayingit is so frustrating when that happens, etc.
2.With a Problem–A story does not get interesting until the main character encounters a problem. Without trouble stories are boring. Likewise, your writing should define the problem you wish to address. Choose to focus on an internal, external or philosophical problem in your life story.
3.Who Met a GuideYou, the hero, do not need to be the strongest character in the story. We all have flaws. Don’t be afraid to admit yours. The strongest character is the guide. A guide is one who has been there, done that. They are more experienced, wiser. Think Yoda in Star Wars, Gandalf in Lord of the Rings, or Dumbledore in Harry Potter. Maybe your guide to overcoming this particular problem in your life story was a parent, grandparent or a mentor. Be sure to give the class enough details about your guide to make them empathetic, authoritative and something that makes them unique (i.e., the same as my mom but different)? The class should instantly be able to visualize your guide and believe they know the guide, but as they keep reading, they will realize they did not fully understand your guide.
4.Who Gave You Specific Advice or a Plan–it can be simple or complicated, and
5.And Called You To Action– you want the class to experience a paradigm shift as a result of reading your story. They should be saying, Wow. I used to think this, but now I realize this!
6.That resulted in [Blank]spell out how the class by applying your life lesson can have a happy ending or can avoid a tragic endingtell them the results they should experience or avoid from reading your story. Keep in mind author Frank Herbert wrote, Theres no real ending, just a place where you stop the story. Your story is NOT intended to cover everything. In the end, it is just a story about a particular problem in your life and the guide who gave you the solution.
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