WRITE A UNIFIED STORY

NAME _________________________________ DATE _____________________

WRITING LAB

Using your free-write imagination, intelligence, and humor, organize the following into a unified story that includes at least one well described setting, some dialogue, at least one simile, and a moral that both summarizes and rhymes at the end.

Include all the text, in any order as you deem fitting. 

Your finished first draft should be between two and three sides of loose-leaf paper, or pages in your notebook.

• May I please be excused from the table?
• The fireplace hasn’t been used since the day before their wedding.
• I can hear that it’s snowing again.
• It wasn’t the first time he’d been late to his own funeral.
• Raspberries were never quite in season in the northern provinces of Canada.
• “Dad?” 
• Whenever the subject came up, as it invariably would, she would ask for a second glass.
• Once upon a time…
• He was from the time when spelling was considered such a personal matter that one would never discuss it in the company of a lady.
• “I must stand a minute or two here on the bridge and look at it, though the clouds are threatening, and it is far on in the afternoon.”
• “Well, well, well, I might have guessed as much!”
• The house was first painted green, though green had not yet become a fashionable color in that section of town. Only now, after years of wear, could the original color show through.

Bonus points for every original illustration you can add to support your story.