Flash Story

“If I waited till I felt like writing, I’d never write at all.” (Anne Tylor) writing is a great way to express inner creativity. This project will let you express yourself in a way that you may have not known you had. Writing can be a way to relieve stress and also make you money if you’re good enough. JK Rowling was poor until she sold the 1^st harry potter book which then she is now worth millions of dollars. Writing is a live long skill that can be adapted and built. Being an author can be a background job until you sell a best-selling novel and can retire.  

 Flash fiction is a great place to start your storytelling. Flash fiction is a type of storytelling that is told in 300-1000 words. This will be a fiction story which means you have to use your creative minds to create an epic tale. The extremely hard part of flash is that you have to tell a story within the word count. You will need to make your story at least 600 (minim) and not exceed 1000 (maxim). This will help you learn how to edit your work down to just important facts. Some people will find it’s a challenge not to go over the word count. Others will have problems making the minim.  

Your story will be marked on 4 things. The first is creativity and how creative you can be with your writing. Editing, grammar, and spelling are all important in this project and will be a part of your mark. You will have to hand in 2 drafts that were edited by other people. Productivity will be 20% of this project. If I see you on you tube, on your cell phone, or any other things that are not working on your project I will take marks off this part of the project. The last part is completion mark.

This should be doable in class time.  If needed you will have to finish this at home. The due date is March 12^th 2016. This is a firm do date. If you are sick this is not real excuse as this can be done on a computer at home and submitted online. There is no plagiarism. If a paper is turned in with anything being coped and pasted from the internet the story will receive a zero. When done it can be posted to the block and a edited copies can be handed in to Mr. Sheppard.  

Marking Rubric

Creativity	30%
Editing, grammar, and spelling	20%
productivity mark	25%
Completion	25%