Feature Story Brainstorm

1. My main subject is my dad, Tim Joyner.
2. Supporting interviews from my mom, sister, and possibly uncles.
3.  The topic would be his childhood experiences and how it made his personality.
4.  I'm going to use the personality angle.
5.
1. Describe some of the major events of your childhood.
2. How did being poor effect your childhood?
3. What is one specific memory you have of being embarrassed because of poverty?
4. How did it influence your personality?
5. How did you feel about kids who had more money?
6. How would you describe the neighborhood you lived in?
7. What struggles did your parents go through to raise you and your brothers?
8. Describe your childhood relationship with your brothers?
9. How does it compare to your relationship with them now?
10. What is one distinct memory from your childhood and how it changed you?
11. What is your life motto?
12. Is there anything you regret from your childhood?
13. How would you describe your academic life in school?
14. How would you describe your social life in school?
15. Describe your first job.
16. How did having a single mother for part of your childhood effect that time period?
17. How safe did you feel in your community?
18. What advice would you give to kids in a similar situation as your childhood?
19. What was the best day of your childhood? Describe.
20. If you had to change something about your childhood, what would it be?
21. How did growing up in a small town effect your childhood?
6.
1. How would you describe Tim's personality?
2. How would you describe his childhood?
3. What do you think are his strongest character traits?
4, What is a story about Tim that shows who he is?
5. What makes Tim different from others?
6. What would be Tim's catchphrase?
7. How would you describe interacting with Tim?
7.
1, More than thirty percent of school children struggle with hunger.
2. By the time children reach the age 11, they are spending 33% of their lives with their siblings.
3. Child hunger has a negative effect on academic performance.
4. Poverty affects child brains due to added stress.
5, Youngest children tend to be more carefree, sociable, and make people laugh.

8. Over Thanksgiving Break
9. In my house
10. Writing down and recording