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Projects: Author's Note

 

The Author's Note plays a very important role in your project stories, so it's definitely worth spending some time to write a really good note. Here are some elements you could include:

 
  • Summary of the source story. Of course, if you have stayed close to your source story (no major changes in plot, character, or setting), you don't need a summary. But when you have made any major changes or left out parts of the original story, then you need tosummarize the original story in your Author's Note. Do this in the first paragraph! The more changes you made to the source story, the longer the summary should be.  
  • Your changes. If the changes are completely obvious, you do not have to describe them; instead, you should focus on telling your readers WHY you made the changes you did. Do not mix the changes in with the summary. Instead, summarize first, and then in a separate paragraph you can explain why you made the changes you did.
  • Background research. Providing background information is a great thing to do in the Author's Note, especially if you did some research in the process of writing your story. Share the results of your research with us in the note! You can summarize any and all research that you did, even if it is not directly involved in the actual story. Giving your readers the benefit of that background information is always a good strategy.
  • Image selection. You can explain why you chose the image that you did. How does the image contribute to the story? What can you tell us about the image itself? If you did research into the artist or have any information to share about the provenance of the image, that's great! Are there details you especially want us to notice in the image? If so, highlight those details in the Note.
  • Overall goal(s) and motivation(s).  Why did you choose this story? How did you come up with your own storytelling style? What do you want your readers to take away from the story? You are literally the only person who can answer these questions; only you know why you made the choices that you did — and the Author's Note is where you can share that decision-making process with your readers. 
  • Editing. You can share comments about editing and revising if you have been working on the story and making changes to it based on different revision challenges that you have chosen. 
  • Explain the story's purpose in your project. As you add stories to your Portfolio or to your Storybook, each story is contributing something unique to the overall project, and you can use the Author's Note to help the reader see how the overall project fits together. How is this story similar to the other stories you have already included? How is this story different? Bring out the points of comparison and contrast so that we can see how this story fits into your Portfolio or Storybook overall.

 

Just what elements you emphasize in the Author's Note is entirely up to you, and it all depends on what you think will be most valuable for your readers. As you can see, there are a lot of different things that the Author's Note can do, so I hope this list will help you in writing Author's Notes that really add to your readers' understanding of the story.

 

 

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