Useful Use the Strategy Checklist on page 27 to mark the strategies you in conferences with your teacher and others, the chart records already use in your story writing. [...] Think Action Plan about RAFTS variables before you begin planning and drafting 1. Choose a favorite published story and analyze the writing your story to gain these advantages: variables: the Role of the narrator, the Audience for the story, the Format (a story), the Topic, and the Strong Purpose or You remind yourself about what is required in your writing. [...] In the second example, a character in the story tells Back of Beyond, Sarah Ellis the story in the first person (in grammar, “I” and “we” are A Walk in My World: International stories about youth labeled first-person). [...] The “something different” While all of the story’s elements — conflict, rising action, and is the difference between what is expected and what occurs resolution — relate to the theme, it is the ending that leaves the — a form of irony. [...] Wanted/But/Showing the problem/So/Then) will be useful in When the details in your story fail to relate to the conflict, your planning.