The leaves are starting to change colour, the temperatures are dropping, the days are getting shorter and our moods are changing. Seasons pass like merry-go-round horses, beautifully designed and painted in their own colours. Winter is a crisp white, with her sparkly ice hooves glittering in the sun. Next, come’s spring with painted-on flowers and […]

‘Don’t tell me the moon is shining. Show me the glint of light on broken glass,’ The goal of ‘show don’t tell’ is to let your reader interpret some of the emotions, actions or objects in your scene. This engages the reader’s mind and makes them, unconsciously, part of the writing. It also means that […]

There are different kinds of sentences. Varying sentence type and length makes your writing more interesting. A simple sentence contains a subject and a verb. It expresses a complete though.Josh plays rugby every morning. A compound sentence contains two independent clauses joined by a coordinating conjunction (and, but, for, not, or, so, yet). Josh plays […]

“Mrs Pratchett” by Roald Dahl The sweet- shop in Llandaff in the year 1923 was the very centre of our lives. To us, it was what a bar is to a drunk, or a church is to a Bishop. Without it, there would have been little to live for. But it had one terrible drawback, […]

Technique Definition Example Simile Like or As They fought like cats and dogs. Metaphor Applied to an object Her suggestion was just a Band-Aid for the problem. Personification human characteristics to something non-human, Lightning danced across the sky. Onematapeia is when a word describes a sound and actually mimics the sound of the object or […]