I hadn’t considered this possibility, but since I was more interested in them learning about the construction of a story than spending time worrying about details, I agreed. “Can we do something based on another story?” my ten-year-old, Spencer, asked. I suggested that both of them started with a who and a what.
Each time we added an element, we went back to the beginning (in this case, who) and added on. We then summed up how everything ended and what we learned. Of course, we started with who, what, and where, but then quickly added why, how, and to whom. Each element added information that the listener needed to fully connect with the story.
STORY BLOCKS FOR KIDS HOW TO
A few days after we returned home, I wrote out story blocks (next tab) on how to build a quick story. My diversion worked so well that my sons were sound asleep before I got to wrap up my discussion on how to build an engaging story.
For example, in that first line, we understand that who is our fated solitary heroine what is her breakdown and where is that iconic country road where, our literary collective unconscious tells us, bad things happen to good people. I pointed out that what made the stories exciting, aside from the admittedly fascinating gore, was the tension created by building the narrative with important details. In an effort to take their minds off the chilling details of the night’s tales, I steered the conversation toward storytelling itself. Later, in the tent, my boys insisted that they were too excited to sleep. The families around the campfire were captivated by her words my two sons’ faces were among those trained on the storyteller. “In the middle of a snowy, winter night, a woman is driving all alone along an abandoned country road when her car breaks down,” began one of the moms in our group as she told her scary story.
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