Creative Story Development Tool

By Melinda Rucker Haynes

Find direction and get your story on track.

Use STORY COMPASS^© to stimulate creativity and explore uncommon, unpredictable combinations of fiction elements than can be used to create distinctive and interesting stories. Using STORY COMPASS©, a writer can work with any or all of the elements of fiction--plot, character, setting, theme.

Get on track . . .

To begin working an idea or to get a story idea, you write with the included erasable marker in the different sections, then spin up interesting combinations. If a story isn't going well, you can re-spin ideas for any element. The frustrating thing that happens when a new story (even the most different, interesting idea) starts to come together, it often becomes predictable and starts to sag. Spinning unusual combinations helps you to get a new view, a new "what if" that is unexpected, unpredictable.

"STORY COMPASS^© works like a charm and is lots of fun, kind of a break from the routine or hole you've dug yourself into." K. S., songwriter, Auburn, WA

"I love working with STORY COMPASS^©, because I never know what's going to come up. I get so many creative ideas that I can hardly get them written down fast enough." K. J., Bozeman, MT

"I use STORY COMPASS^© with my sixth grade class to teach creative writing. The kids love it." J. L, teacher, Kingman, AZ

STORY COMPASS^© is an 11"x17" durable, reusable laminated creative development tool with three segmented, rotating circles. A Creative Use Guide and dry erase marker are included.

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