Our Writing - Almost Published!

We have spent several weeks on our drafts, implementing the writing techniques we have learnt from the authors we have studied!

• We learnt about leads - writers decide on a gradual beginning of their writing or a lead directly into the action.




• We learnt about structure - writers decide on the structure of their writing so that it is accessible and easily understood by the reader. We practiced 'repetitive word structure', like in "Water Dance".




• We learnt about 'voice' and how writers decide on what kind of feeling they want to give over to the reader and how their personality is going to come through in their writing.
  

Once most of us had completed our drafts we went on to revising. We discussed that most writers agree that 80% of their work going in to revising and making their writing better.

• One strategy that writers use to revise is to change the verbs that they use into more 'vivid verbs' to make their writing more powerful and interesting.
  

We are now up to editing our work. We will be reading over our pieces to check that the punctuation we have used gives power to our words!

We hope to publish soon so that we can share some of our published pieces by the recital!