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Story Writing

Story writing requires creative thinking and imagination.

While writing a story:

think of a topic and write down some key ideas about it.
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decide on the characters you will write about and the relationship between them.
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try to picture the story and write down the events according to their sequence.
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divide the outline of the story into introduction, body and conclusion.
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end your story with a proper ending.
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Develop a story from the given outlines and give a suitable title.

A jackal―met an old woman―asked to put out thorn from his paw―jackal asked for the
thorn ―but the lady threw it away―old woman was sorry and gave him an egg―jackal

came to village and kept the egg at an old man’s house―at night the jackal ate up the egg―
in the morning jackal asked the old man for the egg―the man was sorry and gave him a
goat―jackal came to another village and kept the goat at a woman’s house―at night he ate
the goat―next morning he asked her son and the woman offered a cow―jackal insisted on

taking the son―the woman gave him a heavy sack as a prize―he opened the rope―two
large dogs tore the jackal to pieces

A Tale of a Jackal

One day a jackal was limping about with a thorn in his paw. On the way, he met an old
woman and he humbly asked, “Grandma, would you please pull out this thorn from my
paw?”

The old woman pitied on the jackal and did so. The jackal thanked her and went away.

However, the jackal soon came back and asked her to give him the thorn.
Writing Skills The jackal jumped up and cried, “I need it. I need it very much.”
The old woman said, “I have thrown it away, I know not where.”

The old woman felt sorry for the jackal and gave him an egg. The jackal took the egg and
ran away with it.

Then he came to a village and knocked at the door of the first house. An old man opened

the door and taking pity on the jackal let him in.

The jackal came in and requested the man, “Please keep this precious egg of mine safely.”

At night the jackal got up, ate the egg and put the shell back on the plate. In the morning,
the jackal asked the man “Where is my egg? Your cat must have eaten my precious egg.”
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