A copy of your quiz results will be sent to the email address you provide. You may want to email it to your teacher/parent, for example. Please enter your email: 1. Before you can make your novel _____________, you must make it _______________. great… real real… interesting great… logical stand out… consistent 2. What is the most important thing you need to do when starting your rough draft? To commit to stick closely to what you planned in your outlines. To give yourself permission to write badly. To set out to write every single day. To turn your logic off so you can write your most creative scenes. 3. What is the most important promise you must make to your reader in your first page? This story will be an adventure story, not a different genre. I am clever with words. I will not bore you. This story will make sense. I will not irritate you with poor spelling and grammar. 4. If you train yourself to keep an eye out for spelling and grammar errors while you write your rough draft, you’ll do yourself a favor. True False 5. Writers translate _______________ into _________________. Readers do the opposite. imagination… words words… description words… imagination imagination… images 6. Why should you beware of the first thing you think of when imagining story events? Because if you are a writer, you are probably not a “morning person”—meaning the later in time you have an idea, the stronger it will probably be. Because your mind is lazy and will feed you unoriginal templates. Because your first idea won’t actually fit. Because first ideas are too logical, and your most creative ideas will come from permitting yourself to daydream. Because you should not underestimate the self-sabotage powers of your subconscious. 7. You should clearly and accurately describe what you imagine. True False 8. Because your novel will be told in first-person point-of-view, page one will automatically tell your reader ________________________. …something about the narrator—the hero. …that you are a beginning writer. …to expect a deeply personal and emotional story. …to expect a story where events won’t always make sense, since there’s only one character’s perspective. 9. To create an emotion in your reader, you need to create that emotion in your character. True False 10. If you have to answer “no” to the questions “Does this section serve the story?” and “Does it create emotion?” what should you do? Ask other people until you find at least one person who would say “yes.” Change it or delete it. Keep it, at least for now, so that you reach your word count goals. Keep it because it has a purpose; you just haven’t figured out what that is yet. 11. Creating emotion is not the same thing as showing emotion. True False 12. Real life is filled with details that we perceive and then forget and details we don’t even perceive at all. To feel real, your story needs all these details so that the reader can perceive them—or not—just as though the story were their real life. True False 13. Good fiction is nothing more than reality with the boring parts left out. True False 14. Please enter your first and last name. (This field has no point value; we ask for your name so we can forward you your results if you do not receive an email copy.) Loading … Share this:FacebookX
