The Story My Father Told Me
Hazel Marion
Over the course of 12 weeks, I will be working to write a novel. My novel will be based off of a story my father told me as a child and I will be using his notes to complete it. For the first two weeks of my project, I am going to use his journal to outline the plot of the novel and specific events that I want to happen in different chapters. After the outline is done, I am going to begin writing. I am planning on writing at least 500 words a day, but hopefully more. This story is quite complex and long, so I am not planning on finishing the story in 12 weeks. However, I want to build my motivation and drive to complete this project, since it is something I have been wanting to do for several years now. After the 12 weeks are over, I hope to continue writing until the novel is finished. Each week, I want to update my blog with excerpts from the story that my classmates and teacher can read. The link to the google doc with the final copy of the story will be embedded in the "The Story" page. I will update this google doc weekly for your reading purposes. For now, I have completed the prologue to the story, which gives a short history of one of the characters in the story. With this project, I also want to include drawings my father has done that go along with the story. For each blog post, I will upload a new picture that corresponds to what is happening in the story that week. The first picture that I will be sharing is a map my father drew of the fantasy world where the story takes place. All of the images will be saved to the "media" tab for easy access. Lastly, my dad and I have not come up with a good name for the actual story, or the fantasy land. Right now, the island is known as "Midland," which we think is too close to Middle Earth, from The Lord of the Rings. If anyone can think of any good ideas for the name of the book, or the island, please feel free to share them in the comments!! Thanks for reading! This is so exciting for me and my dad, and I am very happy to be able to share a part of my writing process with this class!!!
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Hazel MarionI am a sophomore at Davie High School, participating in the Genius Hour Project for Mr. Barker's English class. Archives
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