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Creative WritingCreative WritingCreative WritingCreative Writing
How to make your writing How to make your writing interesting!interesting!
Objectives• To write a story that
incorporates a specific object, a specific location and written for a specific genre.
You have already…• Written flashbacks.• Written interesting openings.• Written to the structure of
exposition, complication, crisis and resolution.
• Completed a shared writing task.• Now it’s time to do it on your own.
What is genre?
Different genres include:
• Romance - Comedy• Horror - Spy thriller• Action - Fantasy• Crime Thriller - Science Fiction• Police Drama- Teen Fiction• Sports
Task• You must pick 1 object from the
bag.• One piece of paper that tells
you the setting for your story.• One piece of paper that tells
you the genre you should be writing in.
Example
• Can of baked beans = Object• Swimming Pool = Location• Thriller = Genre
Tom had been placed in a chair right on the edge of the swimming pool. Somehow his feet and been placed in concrete blocks. He’d been beaten and a mixture of blood and sweat was falling from his head onto his shirt. He peered backwards and stared at a possible watery death…
A solitary figure stood in front of him. The figure held up a can. It looked like a can of baked beans. Tom’s confusion turned to fear as the dark figure removed the ring and brought it up to his face. Slowly the assailant carved cuts in Tom’s cheek. His screams echoed around the empty building…
10 minutes• In your opening you must
establish your location and your main character. This is called the exposition.
• Use the model provided to help you with sentence starters.
Feedback• What went well?• Even better?
5 minutes• Now continue your story and try to
incorporate your object.• TIP! Make sure that you are writing
in your chosen genre!
Feedback
• What went well…• Even better if…
Plenary• On the post-it provided, write down one
thing that you are particularly happy with in your story and one target for improvement.
• Place the post-it on the door and place your object back in the bag.
• Put all unwanted paper in the recycling bin.