Creative+Writing+Approaches

For the marker: 1. Write an engaging and creative story - good quality writing 2. Show your understanding of the ways of thinking of the period Issues:
 * nature
 * social concerns - being restricted by class restrictions/ status quo/ tyranny of gentry
 * Industrial Revolution - forced to move, or yearning for the natural world
 * how to find meaning in life
 * political uprising & challenge - war
 * sublimity
 * imagination
 * sensibility
 * idealism
 * individuality
 * passion
 * metaphysics
 * pantheism
 * supernatural
 * vision
 * thwarted fulfilment of greatness

E.g. mysterious setting/ protagonist - discourse with spirit that haunts them for prior wrongs (crazy)/ escape to nature - metaphor for escaping class - emerge sadder and wiser E.g death of loved one - move to city - depressed - maddened - haunted by spirit - goes to war as desperate measure for meaning E.g. travel adventure - Switzerland - someone dies - terrible accident, go to local castle - trapped/ labyrinth - metaphor for finding meaning - escape through death/ love/ accepting the past / memory and vision/ exile

Voice:
 * backstory - exmaining motive and fleshing out character and issues
 * emotion
 * central flaws - this helps to create authenticity and attachment from the reader
 * interior monologue

Narrative devices: Instant plot:
 * illustrate backstory - use plot device like a letter or conversation between others
 * withold information - create mystery
 * changing chronological order
 * website - Lightning Bug
 * think about film making - how does focal distance /angle influence how we respond to the text and characters
 * conflict - keep it small - only 2 or so people, or interior
 * criticial incident
 * timelock - 'if we don't find the answer by 7pm, the world will stop turning!'
 * twist - reversal of expectations