GCSE English - Creative Writing

Language Techniques
1. Basics
  1. Metaphor
  2. Rhetorical Questions
  3. Elipses
  4. Similie
  5. Punctuation
  6. Alliteration
  7. Ambitious Vocabulary
    1. Sagacious
    2. Parsimonious
    3. Mendatious
  8. Personification
  9. 1st, 2nd, 3rd person
  10. Paragraphs
  11. Good Grammar
  12. Verbs
2. Advanced
  1. Juxtaposition
  2. Semantic Field
  3. Create a compelling 'hook'
  4. Show don't tell
  5. Craft - endings are most important
  6. Hint, suggest + imply
  7. Surprise + Shock the reader
  8. Deal with the 'innerlife' of characters
  9. Imagery
  10. Sparse the essential dialogue
  11. Constantly edit + draft
  12. Make there be some type of message, purpose or point of the writing
Structure
1. Entirety
  1. Macro
    1. Obvious + Cliche
      1. Try to avoid obvious ideas
    2. Overview
  2. Mirco
    1. Interesting + Different
    2. Important significant detail
  3. Nano
    1. Original
    2. Zoom even further
2. Questions
  1. Who?
  2. What?
  3. When?
  4. Where?
  5. Why?
  6. How?
3. Vary Paragraphs
  1. Think in paragraphs
4. Give
  1. Purpose
  2. Direction
  3. Destination
  4. Content
  5. needs significance, feelings and thoughts
Re-writing + Editing
1. Order
  1. 1. Expostition
    1. 2. Complication
      1. 3. Climax
        4. Resolution
        A soloution for the complication is produced
        The point where suspense is highest and matters are most thretening
      2. Lives of characters become complicated
    2. Intorduces characters and starts the action
  2. Start
    1. Middle
      1. Problem
        Ending
Narrative
1. Problem to Soloution
  2. 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)
2. Binary Opposites
  1. Life vs Death
  2. Good vs Evil
  3. Light vs Dark
  4. Youth vs Old
  5. Male vs Female
Development
1. Improvement
2. Ideas
3. Vocabulary
Describe
1. People + Character
  1. Smell
  2. Sight
  3. Touch
  4. Sound
  5. Taste
  6. Thoughts +Feelings
    1. eg. angry, guilty, upset
Storys
1. Opening
  1. WAGOLL - What a good one looks like
  2. Be 'hooked' from the start
  3. be metaphorical not literal
  4. use inference
  5. open with comedy (if appropriate)
  6. action is a must
  7. put a link in for the end
  8. less can be more
2. Ending
  1. cliffhanger
  2. moral or message
  3. unexpected twist
  4. open ending
  5. happily-ever-after
  6. return to the beginning
  7. sense of finality

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