Recipe - _ing, _ed, Puss in Boots

Today's #afewwordsaday #KAFWAD submission

Why not join me? Today's prompts are below. Prompts for the rest of the week are in a separate post just below.

18th September 2015

OOh, writing this as a recipe was harder than I thought!

My 'EBIF' - even better if, has to be: to be more consistent in my style. I need to commit more to the language and vocabulary of a real recipe.

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Prompts / date	18th  September 2015
FMS Photo a day	My own
Text type	Recipe
Sentence type	_ing, _ed
Story	Puss in Boots

_ing, _ed

adds detail. adverbial - location

begin sentence with _ing followed by location of the action. Then next action.

Dancing in the studio, she watched in horror as a ghost appeared.

Recipe for Puss in Boots

Ingredients

A dead miller

An orphaned teen

A pair of boots for the cat

A sprinkling of country folk

Several gifts

A king and his daughter in a carriage

A river

An ogre in a castle

Method

Combine the orphaned teenager with the cat. Add a dash of ingenuity and a splash of ruthlessness.

Rinse the boy in the river while the cat infuses the country folk with subterfuge. Continue mixing the boy with an unsuspecting, naïve King until the ‘Marquis of Carabas’ is created.

Let the King, his daughter and the boy rest in the carriage.

Meanwhile, use the cat to transform the ogre first into a lion then a mouse. Allow the cat to react naturally with mouse, thus removing the ogre from the castle.

Add the contents of the carriage to the castle, leave to prove until marriage is proposed.

Enjoy this dish happily ever after.

Story spine - personification - Rapunzel

Today's #afewwordsaday #KAFWAD submission

Why not join me? Today's prompts are below. Prompts for the rest of the week are in a separate post just below.

17th September 2015

 Rather than using Alan Peat's Plot skeleton, I have chosen to use a different skeleton structure. Here is more about the 'Story spine', as used by Pixar: Story spine: the fourth rule of story telling

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Prompts / date	17th  September 2015
FMS Photo a day	I never
Text type	Plot skeleton I’m going to use these 7 ‘Story Spine’ sentence starters: Once upon a time there was Every day, Until one day…. Because of that… Because of that…. Until finally….. Ever Since that day
Sentence type	Personification of weather
Story	Rapunzel

Personification of weather

Imagery, adds emotion

Give a type of weather a human mood.

Norman was beaten and whipped by the hail. The breeze gently stroked her face.

Once upon a time there was a girl with long hair who lived in a tower in the middle of a forest. She had been taken from her parents as a baby as a punishment for her father stealing salad leaves from the witch’s garden to satisfy her mother’s craving.

Every day the witch who took her visited, using Rapunzel’s long hair to climb up the tower.

Until one day a prince heard Rapunzel singing and saw how beautiful she was and he copied how the witch climbed her hair. They fell in love and planned her escape. Rapunzel accidently gave the game away.

Because of that the witch was angry and cut off Rapunzel’s hair, casting her out into the wilderness. When the Prince came, the witch threw her hair down for him and when he was close to the window she let the hair go. He fell to the ground and was blinded by thorns below.

Because of that he spent years wandering aimlessly through wastelands.

Until finally the winds guided him to the wilderness where Rapunzel now lived. He heard her sing and they fell into each other’s arms. Rapunzel’s tears fell on his eyes and healed them.

Ever since that day, they lived happily with their own children in his kingdom. And the witch? She was trapped for ever in the tower with no means of escape.