On Tuesday the 17th of January, a special guest came in. His name was Nick Hesketh, who is an author that has wrote The story of Mull and Iona, Bodkin keeper of Marsh and Bodkin and the big city. He came here to tell us about how to write a good story. Here are Nick’s 6 golden rules:
- Whether you are writing in the past of the present tense, remain consistent.
- Avoid over using strong words like ‘house’, ‘car’ or a characters name.
- Avoid repeating fragile words like ‘the’, ‘he’ and ‘she’ to the point where they become strong words.
- Avoid using blunt words like ‘spooky’, ‘scary’ and ‘sad’.
- Whether it’s a character irritated by the rain, or a disagreement over which path to take, include a little conflict in your paragraph.
- Choose a keyhole person through whom your reader can experience the story.
Here are some more of Nick’s ideas to make a wonderful, fantastic, amazing, fabulous story.
We used those rules to write a paragraph which continued into a story, which we’re writing in class right now.
Some of the stories are about:
- Secret door
- Evil turtles
- Wold War 2
- Robot
- Wolves
- Dog zombies
- Creatures
- Unicorns
- And lots more
The workshop was really fun and we all learned so much from one visit.
By
Cerys and Isobel
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