SETTING
1. where this is happening (relevant detail)
2. when this is happening (relevant detail)
3. transitions when time or place change
CHARACTER
4. your age at the time it happened
5. relevant detail on self/other characters
6. your feelings about event (before, during, after)
7. what kind of person you were, and how this affected what
happened
8. what kinds of people others were, and how they affected
events
9. how this event changed you or them
PLOT
10. what "the usual" was for that time
11. foreshadowing
12. what started the action
13. what kept it going/made it worse
14. what else could have happened
15. details that help reader "experience" events
16. most detail at most crucial part
17. how it was all resolved
THEME
18. meaning/importance of event
19. what you learned, how you/others changed
20. why you remember it