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    Story Starters for Young Writers
    Story Starters for Young Writers
    Story Starters for Young Writers
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    Story Starters for Young Writers

    By Liz Masoner

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    50 story starters of varying length to get young people writing. Story beginnings cover school, found objects, family secrets, fantasy, and animals. Give your young writer a head start and help getting started telling the stories in their minds. Imagination is the most powerful force in the universe. It allows us to dream and love. Stories are the way we share our imagination with others. Kids have fabulous imaginations but sometimes need a little help getting started telling their stories. As they are learning to tell stories they often need more than a prompt that says, “write about this”. Story starters are the beginning of a real story, not just another command to write.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLiz Masoner
    Release dateDec 13, 2016
    ISBN9781370110070
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      Story Starters for Young Writers - Liz Masoner

      Story Starters for Young Writers

      Liz Masoner

      © Copyright 2016 by Liz Masoner

      Published by Liz Masoner

      Smashwords Edition

      License Notes

      This book is protected under the copyright laws of the United States of America and international treaties. Any reproduction or other unauthorized use of the materials within is prohibited.

      This ebook is licensed for your personal use only. This ebook may not be resold or duplicated. Help keep the prices of this ebook and others low by honoring the copyright terms and law. Unauthorized copies raise costs for everyone and are illegal.

      Disclaimer: People, places, objects, and other items mentioned in these story starters are pulled out of the author’s imagination and not mean to resemble anyone or anything living or dead.

      Cover Credit: The base image for the cover of this book was created by Catharina77 on DeviantArt and used under terms of her offered license agreement.

      Dedication

      For my dear friend Beth, we all miss you and your dragon roar terribly.

      *****

      Table of Contents

      How to Use These Story Starters

      A Note on Reluctant Writers

      Copyright and Using These Starters in Published Works

      Story Starters – School

      Story Starters – Family Secrets

      Story Starters – Found Objects

      Story Starters – Animals

      Story Starters – Pure Fantasy

      Acknowledgements

      About the Author

      *****

      How to Use These Story Starters

      Imagination is the most powerful force in the universe. It allows us to dream and love. Stories are the way we share our imagination with others. Kids have fabulous imaginations but sometimes need a little help getting started telling their stories. As they are learning to tell stories they often need more than a prompt that says, write about this. Story starters are the beginning of a real story, not just another command to write. These story starters are designed to help gets kids thinking, and dreaming. Some starters are short

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