by melaniewp | Jun 24, 2013 | Alan Wake, Character, Creative Writing, GCSE, IGCSE
Here’s a lesson I did with a student to create a sense of character for a story he was writing based on Alan Wake.The character is looking at a brick wall which should not be there. It is impossible and now he is starting to panic.So how do we describe his...
by melaniewp | Jun 23, 2013 | Creative Writing, English Language Exam, GCSE, IGCSE, Writing
The stories are all based on pictures, with monsters, a chase, a king or characters.Any of these stories can be written first person or third. Try to make sure you’re showing the story, not just telling it. Find out how here.ALL ABOUT CHARACTER[1] Old man loses...
by melaniewp | Jun 22, 2013 | Controlled Assessment, Coursework, Creative Writing, English Language, English Language Exam, GCSE, Ideas for Stories, IGCSE, Writing
How to Improve Content+ 25 Awesome Ideas to Steal and Use for Stories Can’t think what to write? Go here first and grab some inspiration. Story writing is supposed to be fun!+ The Basics of Story Construction fiction, non-fiction, creating characters,...
by melaniewp | Jun 21, 2013 | Controlled Assessment, Coursework, Creative Writing, GCSE, IGCSE, My Last Duchess, Show Don't Tell, Writing
Here are some examples to demonstrate how to ‘show, don’t tell’ in a creative writing piece for GCSE. The text it is based on is ‘My Last Duchess’, by Robert Browning in which a Medici prince talks about how he murdered his wife.The...
by melaniewp | Jun 20, 2013 | AQA, Creative Writing, English Language Exam, GCSE, IGCSE, Writing
This is a question set in June 2013 for the Writing Section of the GCSE AQA English Language exam. The answer below is written by me, and you can read a clean version, without annotation here.To start with, I should probably say that this took me an hour, I did it on...
by melaniewp | Jun 20, 2013 | AQA, Best and the Worst, Creative Writing, English Language Exam, GCSE, IGCSE, Something Interesting, Writing
The BestThe best meal I had was stolen. I wasn’t supposed to be in the Swan Bar at Shakespeare’s Globe; I was supposed to be meeting an old friend, staring at objects in a museum and having an intelligent conversation. But my friend had lost his phone – so I...
