Storyteller Quest 10

Inspiration

Write about the first time you understood what sarcasm was. Was it funny? Did it hurt? How did it make you feel?

Knowledge

Tone - This is the attitude that an author brings into the story.

Take a basic sentence and add tone to it to get a different feeling story.

Basic sentence: “The girl went to the store for her mother to buy sauce for dinner.”

Angry tone: “The girl stomped to the store full of degenerates for the woman she used to call, ‘mother’ to buy sauce she didn’t even like for a dinner that reminded her of when she liked life.

Straightforward tone: “The girl left early for the store because it was always full of people who made things slow. She loved her mother, but she wished more than once that she’d remember to buy the sauce when she bought the main ingredients.”

Sarcastic tone: “The girl loved to wait in long lines at the store while people stared at the back of her head while she attempted to buy the most delicious sauce ever made for rat meat that her mother just had to have.”

Challenge

Part 1. Find a children’s book. Establish what the author’s tone is.

Part 2. Rewrite the story with a contrasting tone. If you are having a difficult time finding different tones, then maybe this list of 155 tones that I found online would be helpful to you.

Send me a message if you’d like some feedback.

Encouragement

What your attitude toward a theme or idea is can make your story more interesting. If you aren’t sure before you start writing, then I’d encourage you to ponder the subject before beginning.

If you are a discovery writer and you strengthen your theme in the editing process, then I encourage you to strengthen your tone at the same time.