Making Our Stories Come Alive

In Writing Workshop we have been working on making our stories come alive.  We are trying to make our writing powerful by telling the "inside story." 

Another thing we have been noticing how good authors stretch out exciting moments bit-by-bit.  When an author gets to the most exciting part of the story, sometimes s/he slows down that moment and tells the exact actions.  We read a few books that were excellent examples of this.

The author writes about when the main character gets a chance to ride a high-diving horse and stretches out the moment as the horse is diving from the high platform into the tank below.

The high-diving horse book is based on a true story from Atlantic City.

We also saw real footage of high-diving horses from the mid-1900s.

We were on the edge of our seats as we read how the little girl in the story got the chance to ride a high-diving horse!

The author stretches out the moment where the boy finds a marooned horseshoe crab and has to quickly flip it over in order for it to survive.

After reading Crab Moon we also became interested in horseshoe crabs and how they have been around for 450 million years.  If you want to learn more about horseshoe crabs, here are some videos of horseshoe crabs spawning on beaches.



We love to write like authors and share our stories!