Creative writing

• Maintain a constant approach:

  • Tone

  • Style

  • Register

  • SPaG

• Use range of

  • Sentences -- vary for effect

    • Simple

    • Compound

    • Complex -- clause mobility

  • Vocab

  • (with implicit meanings)

• Show not tell -- with imagery but avoid clichés

  THE STORY HAS TO BE CONVINCING.

Language / techniques:

• consistency

• awareness of the content you have created

• appropriate ideas maintained

Structure / Shape:

• Root your ideas in the familiar -- write something you know about

• Safe

  • chronological

• Higher risk — time management and control

  • cyclical (start at the end and come back to the beginning

  • flashbacks

  • dual narrative

• higher risk as it will require more planning and more control. So:

  • keep dialogue to a minimum

  • paragraphs — planning