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Prose - Fiction Checklist

This document is a checklist for writing fiction, outlining essential elements such as organization, fluency, voice, word choice, formatting, and conventions. It emphasizes the importance of a clear introduction, inciting incident, rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution, along with the use of figurative language and proper formatting. Additionally, it highlights the need for error-free writing, including correct punctuation and grammar.

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Prose - Fiction Checklist

This document is a checklist for writing fiction, outlining essential elements such as organization, fluency, voice, word choice, formatting, and conventions. It emphasizes the importance of a clear introduction, inciting incident, rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution, along with the use of figurative language and proper formatting. Additionally, it highlights the need for error-free writing, including correct punctuation and grammar.

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Prose: Fiction

Checklist
ORGANIZATION/IDEAS
❏ Introduction Paragraph- Exposition
❏ Setting is introduced
❏ Hook present; using imagery
❏ Sets the scene for the beginning of the story
❏ Introduces at least one main character
❏ Ends with a sentence that leads the reader into the
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storyline.
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Me Inciting Incident: kicks off the action of the story and
explains the conflict.
❏ Rising Action builds to the Climax.
❏ Climax is clear and descriptive.
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❏ Falling Action sticks with the storyline.
❏ Resolution solves the conflict (unless intended to leave the
reader hanging).
❏ An origin tale is the main purpose for writing or one is
incorporated into the story.
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❏ There is a theme.
FLUENCY
Read your story out loud to yourself or someone else; does it flow? Is
it easy to read?
❏ Transitions at start of each new paragraph when appropriate

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❏ Transitions
PARAGRAPHS
between sentences/ideas (ex: also, after...) INSIDE

❏ Sentences don’t all start the same way.

❏ Combined sentences with comma/conjunction or semicolon

VOICE
❏ You are writing to your intended audience.
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❏ Your story is entertaining.
❏ Uses dialogue to bring characters to life.
❏ The narration is clear and effective.

WORD CHOICE
❏ I have changed words to make the story more enjoyable.
❏ I used figurative language.
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❏ One simile or metaphor
❏ One use of personification
❏ I do not have any repetition in my story.
❏ I used vivid adjectives.
❏ I used strong verbs.
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❏ My vocabulary matches the age of my audience.
❏ I used more advanced, specific vocabulary.

FORMATTING:

❏ Title Page
❏ Creative Title
❏ Illustration
❏ Author Full Name
❏ Illustrator Full Name
❏ 2.0 spacing throughout with NO EXTRA SPACING ANYWHERE
❏ Margins the same 1” all around (already preset)
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❏ No spaces between paragraphs; each paragraph is indented

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❏ No weird
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fonts or underlining; font is TIMES NEW ROMAN 12 ALL

EDIT:
CONVENTIONS
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❏ I have no spelling errors.
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❏ I have no punctuation errors.
❏ I punctuated my dialogue correctly.
❏ Commas and periods go inside quotations.
❏ Character’s thoughts are italicized.
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❏ I began a new paragraph if two or more characters were having a
conversation.
❏ Proper nouns are capitalized.
❏ Sentences end in periods and not commas.
❏ I stayed in the same verb tense.
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❏ All of my sentences are complete.
❏ All of my sentences are parallel.
❏ Subject and verb go together in each of my sentences.

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