S1 Creative Writing Revision

Can you summarise the plot of your story in a few sentences?

What writing techniques will you include in your story?

PORTMAN SQUARE, LONDON, 1911.

It was a strange and rambling house, full of old oak stairways.   Long and narrow corridors seemed to hold dark and evil secrets.   Windows gave no warming sunlight, only gloomy views of shadowed courtyards at the back and the blank, blind faces of houses at the front.

After sunset a shroud of darkness seemed to wrap itself around the house before creeping slowly inside.   Blazing log fires hardly seemed to warm the rooms and hissing gaslight was strangely dimmed.

Pick something that you like and explain why it makes it more interesting.

PORTMAN SQUARE, LONDON, 1911.

It was an old house which stood on the corner of the street.   The corridors were very long and not very well lit.   The sun didn’t shine in the windows , and so the house didn’t have a good view. At night, the house grew very dark.   As well as being difficult to light, the house was always very cold.

Not very interesting, is it?   Pick three things that you would change to make it to something much better.