Hints and Tips
Aim for a strong beginning,
to really capture your reader’s interest. With a limit
of 250 words there isn’t much room for words that aren’t
working as hard as they should be!
Try and make your work come to life.
Look for vivid, fresh, original ways of describing something
and avoid well-worn phrases that you’ve heard many times
before.
Your writing may feel more “real”
if you use your senses to help convey the world you
are writing about. Appearance, texture, sound, smell,
taste can be very evocative and powerful in creating your
written world.
Everyone has a story to tell. Don’t
think yours is too commonplace or “boring”. Tell
it accurately with feeling and emotion and you can make it
interesting. The story can be made more engaging by the way
you choose to tell it whether that is as a poem, a piece of
fiction or a factual account.
Don’t be afraid to take risks
and explore creative possibilities. Often writing
really comes to life when the writer is prepared to let the
imagination run wild!
Don’t be frightened of the
blank page/screen. If you’ve got an idea you
want to write about, put it down on paper or screen. Then
you can work with it and change it about until you are happy
with the result. Don’t expect your work to appear fully-formed
from the clouds on demand and don’t be disappointed
if it doesn’t! Writing takes a bit of work and effort
but it’s a lot of fun.
We each carry around many different
worlds in our heads: family, work, school, interests,
hopes, fears, real and imagined people and places, cultures,
stories, memories, dreams. They are all of interest. Set them
free!
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Think about
where you come from: a time, a place, a culture.
Write about it and see where it takes you.
- Invent an imagined world that
only you know.
- Send us a postcard about a
place that is important to you.
- Tell us about somewhere you’ve
been.
- Tell us about somewhere you’d
like to go (imagine somewhere if you’d
like).
- Write about your childhood.
- Give yourself a different
life and tell us about it.
- Write about your secret history.
- Write about your school/work
life.
- Tell us about your interests:
maybe you have a different world as a sports
player, musician, dancer, magician….
- Invent a character and tell
us about their world
- Write about the worlds
you dream
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