Matt’z Madnezz

Writing Scale!

This is the writing scale its a one to ten scale, with 10 the best, and 1 the worst. its based of categories

  1. Spelling and grammar. No one fragments. Mistakes affect the flow of the stories.
  2. Action. A boring story gathers no crowd
  3. Imagery. Details. A story like “A guy walked in the room and order a drink” holds nothing like “The suave super spy smoothly slid soundly into the seat. ‘Sasprilla,Said the Spy. Stirred, slightly shaken” which is also alliteration
  4. Plot. A story has to GO somewhere, be moving. You can have an occasional lull, but if reading your story is like walking through mud, its not going to be good enough
  5. Characters. Some people thing its a form of detail, and it is, but it does have its own category. A character carries plot, paints detail, is the action! A character that is ill defined or even contradicting itself is not good. Well develop your characters.
  6. Dialog. If your ‘words’ seem out of place, off center, not on character, you literary card-house will tumble. each conversation should be natural, intuitive, and worth reading
  7. Just the general mish-mash of other stuff. I’ll update the scale if needed

5 Comments »

  1. [...] A level 7 story to read aloud to the group(with a lot of people we may not do this) See page for details [...]

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  2. uhh…my chacters have no names…….so that may hinder my score…ahh who cares…..

    Comment by Lizzie — September 23, 2007 @ 8:59 pm | Reply

  3. [...] A level 7 story to read aloud to the group(with a lot of people we may not do this) See page for details [...]

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  4. [...] A level 7 story to read aloud to the group(with a lot of people we may not do this) See page for details [...]

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  5. [...] A level 7 story to read aloud to the group(with a lot of people we may not do this) See page for details [...]

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