Is My Story Good Quiz
How the Scales are Structured
Who Usually Takes This Test?
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Below is a preview of how scores are typically distributed across each scale.
Example Questions From the Test
- Only the details needed to understand where everyone is standing.
- A few vivid features that give the location a recognizable mood.
- How the place's layout, history, and everyday use shape what the characters can do.
- One practical detail plus a brief sensory impression.
- Trace each major event back to the protagonist's choices and repair the broken causal link.
- Keep drafting exploratory scenes until a promising direction appears.
- Sketch two or three possible turning points and choose the one that fits best.
- Identify the next immediate obstacle without reconsidering the whole structure.
- A person with conflicting desires who must make a revealing choice.
- A striking situation that suggests a clear role for the protagonist.
- A broad character type I can define more fully while drafting.
- A concept or sequence of events that could work with several kinds of protagonist.
Is My Story Good Quiz - Description and methodology of the test
People developing a premise or revising a draft can use the Is My Story Good Quiz to identify their strongest craft affinities. Rather than issuing a single verdict, it serves as a storytelling strengths assessment, mapping character, momentum, plot, and worldbuilding into a profile of storytelling affinities. The result can help choose a craft focus, suggest a useful direction for a stalled draft, and reveal strengths worth using intentionally.
What This Assessment Explores
Questions place writers in craft situations involving scenes, dialogue, revision, research, turning points, endings, and character choices. The result describes creative affinities, not grammar, marketability, or overall talent.
The four dimensions are:
- Character Alchemist (0-12) measures motives, voices, relationships, and inner change: Supporting Trait (0-4), Active Strength (5-8), Signature Superpower (9-12).
- Momentum Maker (0-12) measures hooks, tension, scene movement, and pace: Supporting Trait (0-4), Active Strength (5-8), Signature Superpower (9-12).
- Plot Architect (0-12) measures causality, structure, setup, payoff, and story shape: Supporting Trait (0-4), Active Strength (5-8), Signature Superpower (9-12).
- World Weaver (0-12) measures immersive settings, coherent systems, atmosphere, and place-driven events: Supporting Trait (0-4), Active Strength (5-8), Signature Superpower (9-12).
Together, these scores form a storytelling strengths profile: the highest identifies your strongest affinity, while scores within one point indicate a blended archetype.
Methodology and Scientific Basis
Each item presents a writing situation with four possible responses, such as repairing a causal link, intensifying pressure, or tracing a setting rule through daily life. Selecting the response that feels most natural builds a four-part profile; there is no correct answer, and the result compares affinities rather than awarding a literary grade.
Storymaker Wheel (Elliott & Southern, 2021) is a conceptual comparator treating creative writing as discussable choices rather than a single talent. Mozaffari (2013), D'Souza (2021), and Kaufman, Gentile, and Baer (2005) provide context on writing criteria, narrative creativity, and creativity judgments. This creative writing quiz organizes self-reflection around writing choices; these works do not validate its four-scale structure or scoring, and it is not an adaptation.
Self-report answers can shift with the project, confidence, experience, and self-perception. The displayed labels are descriptive bands for this questionnaire and should be read alongside the comparative profile, not as a complete account of your writing. Use the result to choose an experiment-strengthening motives, escalating obstacles, tightening causal links, or making place consequential-while treating it as one perspective on your process.
- Elliott, J., & Southern, A. (2021). The Storymaker Wheel: An investigation into how teachers and pupils can use a counter-culture assessment tool to evaluate creative writing in the classroom. The Curriculum Journal, 32(4), 667-687. 10.1002/curj.112
- Mozaffari, H. (2013). An Analytical Rubric for Assessing Creativity in Creative Writing. Theory and Practice in Language Studies, 3(12), 2214-2219. 10.4304/tpls.3.12.2214-2219
- D'Souza, R. (2021). What characterises creativity in narrative writing, and how do we assess it? Research findings from a systematic literature search. Thinking Skills and Creativity, 42, 100949. 10.1016/j.tsc.2021.100949
- Kaufman, J. C., Gentile, C. A., & Baer, J. (2005). Do Gifted Student Writers and Creative Writing Experts Rate Creativity the Same Way? Gifted Child Quarterly, 49(3), 260-265. 10.1177/001698620504900307
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