 Hello and welcome back to another lesson. Now within this lesson what I want to do is to offer you another alternative story plan to memorize when it comes to creative writing and more specifically memorizing the story plan according to the following setting which is the beach. So when it comes to beaches these tend to be quite popular with creative writing and of course you can also use this setting in a really intriguing way to create a really powerful and compelling story and this is the story plan that I would suggest considering and of course remember these story plans they're fairly flexible right this is this the skeletal structure the skeletal framework however of course you can also inject your own creativity within this plan. So let's have a look at a creative writing story that you could write based on the beach setting okay so starting off at the beginning this is of course the beginning and the start of your story mountain right now of course because you're at the beach we can you can establish that you are on holiday right so you finally manage to arrive in maybe a really beautiful beach paradise let's say somewhere like Mauritius or the Maldives one of these beautiful beach destinations right so you're on holiday of course you're using lots of pathetic fallacy the sun is shining it's beaming onto this vast endless ocean it looks like this picturesque paradise right so you're on holiday at the beach paradise and you stand so it starts off with you standing by the shore by the coastline looking out in complete disbelief I can't believe I'm here I can't believe I've arrived finally in Mauritius Tanzania or a Zanzibar for instance right these beach these beautiful beach paradises right so you're standing out to the shore looking out in disbelief that is your beginning paragraph where you establish a sense of setting the weather right really nice balmy weather you can maybe inhale the salty scent of the ocean this is your beginning paragraph now in your build up you decide after looking out in disbelief and you can't quite believe your hair but you are so you decide you're going to go exploring and you walk along the coastline exploring this entire paradise right so you're looking out at the ocean and you're walking along this beautiful sandy coastline and you notice as you're walking right so maybe you can juxtapose perhaps the coastline before you and maybe it's on your right whilst perhaps on your left by the beach you notice there's a dense dark part of the island right so maybe you notice like this kind of area within the island that maybe tourists avoid people avoid which is filled with lots of palm trees it's just kind of this jungle of different trees lots of foliage on the other side of the island a little bit away from the ocean itself and from the coastline so you're curious and now this is where we go into the third problem paragraph so you're curious and so you decide to travel towards the dense jungle of trees right because you're wondering why is everybody avoiding it and you go away from the coastline so perhaps it's coastline you can hear the swishing of the ocean you can hear maybe people frolicking on the beach you go away from that and you notice that this dense place seems quite lifeless this is a good example of how your problem paragraph doesn't have to be like a really dramatic problem doesn't even have to feature a villain as such right the problem paragraph can be something that just kind of changes the tone and the atmosphere of the story so you notice that this place is lifeless in contrast to this paradise and your heart starts racing your heart starts beating as maybe you inch forward and forward as you enter this dense kind of darker part of the island okay almost if you've read a story called Lord of the Flies it's kind of a little bit like that right this juxtaposition so perhaps you can borrow a little bit of that now the resolution the fourth paragraph as you enter this dense jungle of trees right on this other side of this paradise island you notice a gigantic fallen palm tree so this huge palm tree which is fallen and perhaps it's kind of split in the middle almost as if it's been disemboweled right so like its bowels have all come out and it's spilled out and there's all of these insects crawling in and out of it okay so this gigantic palm tree and this is really powerful symbolism you can use because maybe the person that's reading your story can be thinking oh there's this palm tree that's fallen and it's disemboweled might it represent or foreshadow the protagonist himself maybe being attacked and then falling and being disemboweled right anyway so now in your ending paragraph you decide you've had enough okay so you've seen enough and you're kind of scared and you're a little bit creeped out so you decide you want to leave and so you turn and step right so you turn and step away but then you step on something that splinters really loudly and you hear this sound right and you can use onomatopoeia here and then you decide to look down and you realize that you have stepped on a bleached skull bleached skull means that the color has um the the skull itself this is a human skull has turned completely white so of course that ending is really ominous you have the palm tree which has fallen on its side and it seems disemboweled right symbolizing maybe somebody who's been killed right and they've fallen and they're now kind of disemboweled everything has spilled everywhere but then now the ending paragraph where you've got this skull that you've stepped on there's kind of this juxtaposition and this contrast between this beautiful opening beach paradise versus this really dark scary ending so that's really it when it comes to an idea that you could use and really develop a really powerful story based on a beach setting