Original Writing

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Original Writing
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Skills

• You will have to focus on your sentence structure
• Varied punctuation to create specific effects
• The structure of the narrative
• Varied vocabulary to create specific effects.

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Sentence Structure
Skilful control in the construction of varied
sentence forms
Little variety in sentence structures
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-ly, -ing, -ed

• I walked through the dark alley and suddenly a
  hand reached out and grabbed my shoulder.
• Suddenly a hand reached out and grabbed my
  shoulder as I walked down the dark alley.
• I was breathing deeply as I crept through the
  deep, dark wood.
• Breathing deeply, I crept through the deep, dark
  wood.
• I was trapped and could not see a way out.
• Trapped! I could see no way out.

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Vary your sentence starters

• He walked to the door. He opened it and looked
  inside. He saw a large..

How could you make this passage more interesting
by changing the sentence starters?? Once done-
finish of the paragraph with two or three more
sentences.
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Sentence lengths

• Simple, Compound, Complex
• Short and long
• A short sentence can be 1 word long!

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Using all 5 sentence variations write one
paragraph about this picture
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Use of Language
Limited vocabulary
Extensive vocabulary
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Dont even bother using!

• Walked/walk-
• Said-
• Nice/good-
• Bad-
• Never start sentences with so/and/then- in fact-
  try not to use them mid sentence if you can!

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Try

• He was unhappy.
• Carefully, he wiped away a glistening tear as he
  watched her turn away and move purposely towards
  the door.
• He was nice
• She was a kind person
• He was happy
• The wind blew hard
• She sat in a tree waiting for her friend
• He walked to school
• The dog barked
• It was sunny
• He was angry

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Describe each of these images using powerful
adjectives and the techniques we have learnt today
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Poetic Techniques

• Simile- When you compare one thing to something
  else using the words as or like.
• Alliteration- When the first letter of the words
  are the same.
• Personification- When make something which isnt
  human sound human.
• Onomatopoeia- A word which sounds like the noise
  it makes.
• Sibilance- Words characterized by, or producing a
  hissing sound like that of (s) or (sh)
• Assonance- Resemblance of sound, especially of
  the vowel sounds in words
• Metaphor- A comparison between essentially unlike
  things without an explicitly comparative word
  such as like or as.

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Come up with one simile, one metaphor and one
personification for each image
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Paragraphs
Broadly appropriate paragraphing
Skilfully sustained paragraphing
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So, when do you start a new one?
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Senses and tense

• Describe - as appropriate to the scene - what you
  saw, heard, tasted, smelt and felt - that is, use
  'sensory description'
• notice 'saw', 'heard' be safe and stick to
  writing about a past time!
• present tense writing can be exciting to read but
  it's far too easy to forget the time frame of the
  present and flip back into the past - which is
  confusing for your reader and loses many marks.
• Unless you are a very sure writer - avoid writing
  about 'now' - choose to write about 'then'

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Describe this scene relying ONLY on your senses
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Could you do it?

• 1) Pathetic fallacy is when you use the weather
  to reflect what is happening in the scene.
• 2) Juxtaposition is two random objects/ideas/persp
  ectives moving in parallel, a technique intended
  to stimulate creativity
• 3) Satire is to hold up human vices and follies
  to ridicule or scorn. Also can be to use wit,
  irony, or sarcasm used to expose and discredit
  vice.

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Pathetic fallacy

• Pathetic Fallacy is very similar to
  personification. However, it can also be used
  when the weather reflects what is going on in the
  scene. Eg.
• If the weather is hot, sunny and there are people
  everywhere- it usually represents a happy
  story.
• If the weather is dark, cold and stormy- you can
  usually guess that something bad is going to
  happen.

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Objective Can I write in different styles?What
are the effects of different writing styles?

• Shattered! Can barely move myself anymore. The
  slow process of age, chasing me my whole life, is
  finally to have its day of victory.
• All around, ever silent, ever invisible, ever
  lasting. The source of all life yet never
  appreciated as the world moves by as always. Yet
  when I am present, they can see, they can feel
  and they cannot run.
• Yeah! This lot are well boring- seriously! Dont
  care less bout this rubbish- I wanna run!

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Example

• The window smashed, sending glass flying in all
  directions. Flames burst into the room. I ducked,
  keeping my body as low as I could, trying
  desperately to avoid the smoke that was advancing
  rapidly across the ceiling. I scanned the room
  for other exits and was relieved to see a small
  window on the far wall. The smoke was getting
  thicker and started slowly descending to the
  floor. My mind shouted, Move!. Taking a deep
  breath of clean air, possibly my last, I pushed
  away from the wall to safety. As I struggled to
  open the window, I felt my heart pounding. My
  lungs screamed for air. The smoke descended and I
  worked blind, my eyes stinging. I pulled
  franticly at the catches, felt them give and
  tumbled out onto the ground below. I felt the
  heat escaping from the open window above and
  started to crawl slowly away.

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Structure
Organisation of the material is simple
Sophisticated control of the text structure