2. Editing a story. Let’s win the Director’s Writing Contest with an error free paper.

3. Edit=Read your story, fix mistakes, and make it sound better. If you do not edit your story, the reader will! How do you edit?

4. Replace Boring Adjectives With Better Ones. Make sure you use descriptive words that are interesting. Not Green but Emerald Green Not Red but Apple Red Not Brown, but The Color of Smooth Hot Chocolate Not Big, but The Size of a Giant. Not Small, but The Size of a Grain of Sand. A thesaurus can help you with this.

5. Make Sure Your Sentences Agree. If the noun is singular, the verb is singular. – Usually a singular noun does not end in an s, but a singular verb does. Make sure you sentences agree in tense. – Two girls can’t “walks yesterday.” They “walked yesterday” – Don’t say “will spoke.” You either “spoke yesterday,” or “will speak tomorrow.”

6. Make Sure You Use the Same Tense Throughout the Story. Never switch tenses. Usually, you will write your entire story in past tense.

7. Look for Careless Mistakes Make sure no words are left out. Make sure you indent when you start a new paragraph. Make sure you capitalize the first letter in every sentence. Make sure you punctuate every sentence. Never start a sentence with a conjunction. Only use one conjunction per sentence. Make sure you entire story is not just one, long, run-on sentence. If you are afraid a word is spelled wrong, check in the dictionary. Then you can change it if you need too. Don’t start every word with the same sentence.

9. You Can Do It!!!! Amaze the judges with an error free paper!