Life Writing Check List

by Bernard Selling

1. Is my story written in the first person and in the present tense?
2. Have I stripped the story of adult, intellectual language?
3. Are my feelings in the story?
4. Do the details and actions make the story clearer and more
   interesting?
5. Does the dialogue help tell the story?
6. Have I kept to one well-focused incident at a time?
7. Are the characters interesting, perhaps unforgettable? Are their
   qualities evident?
8. Are my feelings about the event clearly expressed?
9. Have I created a monologue to convey inner thoughts and feelings?
10. Have I improvised the facts where my memory has failed?
11. Is the spine of my story clear?
12. Did I Find an effective starting point? Did I begin with action or
    dialog?
13. Is my story visual?
14. Did I find and expand the climax to the story?

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