#GOOD SHORT STORIES TO WRITE ESSAYS ON HOW TO#

But he was right-I found a better arrangement. The editor asked me to change the order of stories, which I’d meticulously labored over. It had been rejected by publishers and contests, but it finally won a contest, which was thrilling. My first collection was published in 2005. Take a few minutes at the end of the exam to clean up the essay and make sure it reads well (sounds good to your ear).( 4 Short Lessons on the Subject of Short Stories) Prepare for the Long Haul In the heat of trying to get the whole essay on paper, you may have made spelling and/or grammar mistakes.

Leave 5 minutes out of your 45 minutes to proof-read your essay at the end. Tip 9: Leave time to proof-read your essay.

This puts him/her in a good mood, you want that. When your handwriting is neat and easy to understand, you are reducing the work the examiner has to do to read your essay. They are so busy trying to get everything down on paper, within the time limit, they don't worry about neat handwriting. I know this sounds too easy, but many people do not write neatly in exams. The examiners really, really do not like when CXC exam candidates write sexually explicit stories. Tip 7: Do not write about sex (or a lot of unecessary violence).

#GOOD SHORT STORIES TO WRITE ESSAYS ON HOW TO#

Use another word that you are sure you know how to spell. If you are not sure about the spelling of a word, don't use it. Make life easy for yourself, use normal sentences and write in paragraph form. If you are not sure about using quotation marks and other punctuation signs when writing direct speech, don't use direct speech in your story. Tip 6: If you are not sure, don't use it. If the essay does not flow smoothly when you are reading it to yourself, see where you can rewrite it so that i If you find yourself stumbling over words, change the ones that you are stumbling over for easier words. One way to tell if you are using 10 dollar words in your essay is to read your essay back to your self as you are writing. They use '10 dollar words' when '10 cent words' will get the job done just as good or better. Sometimes exam candidates think that they need to use 'essay language' to impress examiners. You will impress the examiner more by using simple, clear language to tell an exciting story, rather than using complex language to tell a story he can't figure out. You don't want the examiner slowing down his reading to try to figure out what you want to say. It is easier to read short sentences than it is to read long sentences. Please note that a sentence doesn't have to be long to work hard. See? In that one sentence I not only talked about the road but I also related it to the character's feelings and future. It's not just, 'the road stretched in front of him', it's, 'the road that stretched in front of him, seemed to echo the emptiness of his future'. It has to tell the story and build the mood or theme of the story at the same time. Every sentence in a short story has to work overtime. If you don't believe me, check out the CXC best short stories, each one is about an event that happens in a few minutes. When you make your story take place in a short space of time, or focus on one emotional moment, it is easier to start and end the story in 45 minutes. Write about one event, one moment in time or one emotional experience.

Tip 2: Write about one short event or short experience. You already know much of the story because you have lived it yourself or you know someone who has. When you do this, you don't have to reach into your imagination so much. When you choose a short story to write, try to stick to a story that you can connect to your own life and/or experiences. It is easier, faster and smarter to write about the things that you know well. Tip 1: Write about the things that you know well. In this post, I just want to give you some 'quick and dirty' tips for writing good short stories when you are not so good at it and you are under the pressure of time in the CXC exam room. Many of which will posted here over time. So, how do you write a CXC English A short story in 45 minutes? Well, there are a lot of techniques for short story writing.

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