IDEAS
I-1 Create an Authority List
I-2 Create a Poem from a Story
I-3 Create a Poem with Imagery, Emotion, and Music
I-4 Dig Up Buried Stories
I-5 Find Your Own Purpose for Writing
I-6 Make a Personal Connection
I-7 Try a New Genre
I-8 Use Plot, Place, and Character in a Story
I-9 Use R-U-P-R When Writing to a Prompt
I-10 Elaborate on an Idea
I-11 Embellish an Idea
I-12 Free Write for Specifics
I-13 Invent Specifics to Fill In Memory Gaps
I-14 Use Authentic Details
I-15 Use General Information & Specific Details
I-16 Use Inference to Let Readers Fill In the Gap
I-17 Use Supporting Details
I-18 Value Your Experience
I-19 Make a Comparison
I-20 Use a Metaphor
I-21 Use Personification
I-22 Bring Your Characters to Life
I-23 Describe What Your Characters Look Like
I-24 Develop the Inner Story
I-25 Develop Your Characters
I-26 Make Your Story Believable
I-27 Use Details to Bring the Setting Alive
I-28 Work with an External Conflict
I-29 Work with an Internal Conflict
I-30 Write in the First Person
I-31 Write in Second Person
I-32 Write in Third Person
DESIGN
D-1 Anticipate What the Audience Expects
D-2 Include a Beginning, a Middle, and an End
D-3 Organize Your Writing
D-4 Use a Recurring Detail
D-5 Use a Transition Between Ideas
D-6 Use Subtitles to Organize Your Writing
D-7 Use the 2-3-1 Format for Organization
D-8 Use White Space in a Poem
D-9 Capture the Power of One
D-10 Find the Right Distance by Pulling in Close
D-11 Find the Right Distance by Pulling Back
D-12 Stay on Topic
D-13 Use a Double Focus in a Narrative
D-14 Use a Double Focus in a Poem
D-15 Use a Thematic Focus
D-16 Use a Time Focus
D-17 Cut to Your Lead
D-18 Lead with a Question
D-19 Lead with the Big Picture
D-20 Open with a Scene
D-21 Write a Lively Lead
D-22 Write a Waterfall Lead
D-23 Come Up With the Right Ending
D-24 End with a Question
D-25 End with Humor
D-26 End with Your Strongest Line
D-27 Control How Time Moves
D-28 Create Suspense in Fiction
D-29 Develop a Scene
D-30 Find Your Focus
D-31 Use Details to Alter the Pace of Time
D-32 Use a Snapshot Structure
D-33 Use a Symmetrical Design
D-34 Use a Triangular Structure
D-35 Write a Circular Story or Poem
LANGUAGE
L-1 Avoid Confusing Pronouns
L-2 Avoid Redundant Words
L-3 Delete the Weak Parts
L-4 Remove Those Annoying Little Qualifiers
L-5 Choose Words That Sound Like What They Mean
L-6 Create Line Breaks in a Poem
L-7 Try Repetition in Narrative Writing
L-8 Use Alliteration
L-9 Use Fresh Language
L-10 Use Repetition in Poetry
L-11 Combine Short Sentences
L-12 Move from Simple to Complex Sentences
L-13 Vary Sentence Beginnings
L-14 Vary the Length of Sentences
L-15 Avoid Clichés
L-16 Avoid Passive Verbs
L-17 Tighten Dialogue
L-18 Use a Natural Voice
L-19 Write Believable Dialogue
L-20 Use a Thesaurus to Find Just the Right Word
L-21 Use Choice Adjectives
L-22 Use Precise Nouns
L-23 Use Verbs that Describe Action
L-24 Use Vocabulary Specific to a Subject
PRESENTATION
P-1 Use a Colon to Introduce a List or Idea
P-2 Use a Semicolon to Pull Together Related Sentences
P-3 Use Commas to Add an Aside
P-4 Use Commas to List Ideas
P-5 Use Parentheses to Add Information
P-6 Use the Dash to Spotlight Part of a Sentence
P-7 Use the Ellipsis
P-8 Be Aware of Words You Commonly Misspell
P-9 Edit for Passive Voice
P-10 Fix Spelling Errors
P-11 Personalize the Editing Checklist
P-12 Reread for Correctness
P-13 Use an Editing Checklist
P-14 Break a Text into Paragraphs
P-15 Stop the Run-on Sentence
P-16 Use Consistent Tense
P-17 Use Fragments When You Write a Poem
P-18 Choose an Appropriate Form
P-19 Choose What Gets Published
P-20 Create Illustrations for the Text
P-21 Reflect on Your Writing
