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Subjective third person narrative
When I was a child, like most young readers I wanted to identify with the characters in books. I didn’t have…
Gillian Cross has written more than 50 books and won many prizes including the Carnegie Medal, the Smarties Prize and the Little Rebels Award. The Demon Headmaster books inspired a successful television series.
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When I was a child, like most young readers I wanted to identify with the characters in books. I didn’t have…
Exercises
Write part of a story in the form of a scene from a play, beginning with a description of the setting…
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When I was young, I read pretty much all the time. Most of what I read was fiction and I was…
Exercises
Begin by inventing ten or twelve separate characters, all different from each other. For each one, choose five adjectives that will…
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