Creative+Writing+Feedback

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Creative Writing Feedback
Having read your pieces and given formative feedback to each of you, here's some generic info I want to give you. Consider your own piece of creative writing while you read this.

__Tension/crisis points in your story - __

These moments are often fast paced, confused, muddled moments; especially in a piece of writing such as the 'Conflict and Resolution' task you are working on. You really need to consider how you are going to add impact to your writing at this moment.

Think about how you can use **punctuation, a variety of sentence lengths and structures, dialogue and vocabulary** to add impact. Here are some examples -

Check out how the writing has more impact every time one of the above elements is worked on.



__Resolutions - __

The ending of your story needs to leave your reader feeling satisfied. Don't leave them hanging! No one wants to guess and it is your story to finish.

Consider what you learnt from the experience you have just taken us through. But, don't write 'cheese'. Sometimes when you write a cliched, 'cheesy' ending, it can be a little like telling your reader how to suck eggs.

If you have placed yourself or others in danger through making the wrong decision, then we don't need to read "I realised that was the biggest mistake of my life and I put everyone in danger." Rather, try to imply that you have learnt that lesson using a less obvious statement like

"Mum and dad's reaction, and the consequent berating they gave me, left me in no doubt that I had forgotten to engage my brain that night." or "Lesson learnt! What is it they say about hindsight being a wonderful thing? Never again would I choose fun and fancy over boring and basic."

__Using dialogue - __

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Make sure you know the rules about including dialogue in your writing.

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Always begin the dialogue of a new speaker on a new line. If that person speaks, then stops and begins once again, there is no need to begin on a new line.

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">There is not always a need to follow dialogue with "he said". We are reasonable clever as readers and are able to figure out who said what in most cases. Of course this doesn't apply if you want to emphasise how someone said something.

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">For example - <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">"What on earth did you do that for?" she spat at me. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">"Can we go now?" they pleaded. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">"You are the nastiest person I ever encountered!" she accused.