Inspiration For My Story

I got the inspiration for my story from a task we were given; this was to create a Halloween themed flash fiction story for younger years 7-9 for a competition. This story consisted of 500 words and had to be suitable for the audience. The purpose of this story was to entertain the younger audience throughout the Halloween season, to do this I influence them to feel scared and build tension whilst they read the flash fiction and used a variety of lingustic methods such as idioms, metaphors and different sentence types. I used a variety of vocabulary and synoyms that I knew they would understand and would be suitable for their reading ability.

I decided to write my story about paranormal activity happening in the woods at night. I chose to do this because we naturally associate the dark with feeling scared and mystery, this would effect them by enhancing them to find out what the paranormal activity was and why it happened. I named my flash fiction 'Stay Out of the Woods' and this would encourage them to think of why they needed to stay out of the woods and what would happen if they went in there. By talking about the spirits only coming out at night it makes the story more creepy than if it were to happen in the day, this is because the dark is about the unknown and what we can't see.