GCSE English - Creative Writing

GCSE English - Creative Writing

1. Language Techniques

   • Basics
     • Metaphor
     • Rhetorical Questions
     • Elipses
     • Similie
     • Punctuation
     • Alliteration
     • Ambitious Vocabulary
       • Sagacious
       • Parsimonious
       • Mendatious
     • Personification
     • 1st, 2nd, 3rd person
     • Paragraphs
     • Good Grammar
     • Verbs
   • Advanced
     • Juxtaposition
     • Semantic Field
     • Create a compelling 'hook'
     • Show don't tell
     • Craft - endings are most important
     • Hint, suggest + imply
     • Surprise + Shock the reader
     • Deal with the 'innerlife' of characters
     • Imagery
     • Sparse the essential dialogue
     • Constantly edit + draft
     • Make there be some type of message, purpose or point of the writing

2. Structure

   • Entirety
     • Macro
       • Obvious + Cliche
         • Try to avoid obvious ideas
       • Overview
     • Mirco
       • Interesting + Different
       • Important significant detail
     • Nano
       • Original
       • Zoom even further
   • Questions
     • Who?
     • What?
     • When?
     • Where?
     • Why?
     • How?
   • Vary Paragraphs
     • Think in paragraphs
   • Give
     • Purpose
     • Direction
     • Destination
     • Content
     • needs significance, feelings and thoughts

3. Re-writing + Editing

   • Order
     • 1. Expostition
       • 2. Complication
         • 3. Climax
           • 4. Resolution
             • A soloution for the complication is produced
           • The point where suspense is highest and matters are most thretening
         • Lives of characters become complicated
       • Intorduces characters and starts the action
     • Start
       • Middle
         • Problem
           • Ending

4. Narrative

   • Problem to Soloution
     • An example is in cinderella, an example would be the 'Free vs inslaved' and the solution would be the free (prince) marrying the inslaved (cinderella)
   • Binary Opposites
     • Life vs Death
     • Good vs Evil
     • Light vs Dark
     • Youth vs Old
     • Male vs Female

5. Development

   • Improvement
   • Ideas
   • Vocabulary

6. Describe

   • People + Character
     • Smell
     • Sight
     • Touch
     • Sound
     • Taste
     • Thoughts +Feelings
       • eg. angry, guilty, upset

7. Storys

   • Opening
     • WAGOLL - What a good one looks like
     • Be 'hooked' from the start
     • be metaphorical not literal
     • use inference
     • open with comedy (if appropriate)
     • action is a must
     • put a link in for the end
     • less can be more
   • Ending
     • cliffhanger
     • moral or message
     • unexpected twist
     • open ending
     • happily-ever-after
     • return to the beginning
     • sense of finality