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Caro Clarke: Pacing Anxiety, or How to Stop Padding and Plot! ArticleCaro Clarke: Pacing Anxiety, or How to Stop Padding and Plot! Article
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Caro Clarke
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9th - 10th
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English Language Arts
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Articles
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1080L
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Caro Clarke: Pacing Anxiety, or How to Stop Padding and Plot!

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This is the seventh installment of a series giving advice to the author who is new to writing novels. This article focuses on how to take your characters and use them and their conflicts to develop the plot of your story. W.9-10.3b Narrative techn, W.11-12.3b Narratives

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CCSS: Adaptable

Concepts

creative writing, plot

Additional Tags

fiction elements, fiction writing, how to write fiction, use narrative techniques, writing guidelines, ccss.ela, caro clarke, caro clarke: pacing anxiety, or how to stop padding and plot! w.6.3.b, w.11-12.3b narratives, w.6.3.b, w.9-10.3b narrative techn, character, develop experiences, events, and/or characters, short story, developing plot

Classroom Considerations

  • Knovation Readability Score: 3 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)
  • The intended use for this resource is Instructional

Common Core

W.11-12.3.b W.6.3.b W.7.3.b W.8.3.b W.9-10.3.b W.9-10.3.a RL.6.3 RL.11-12.3 RL.7.3 W.6.3.a RL.9-10.5 RL.9-10.3 CCRA.W.3

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