29 Apr 2009

Guidelines for Step 11

Tips for writing stories

* Use adjectives to describe the weather and atmosphere.

* Use at least one simile to keep the reader alert.

* Use the Past Simple to talk about actions that happened at a specific time in the past. Use the Past Continuous to talk about an action that was happening at a specific time in the past. Use the Past Perfect to describe an action that happened before another action in the past.

* Use time words (first, as soon as, then, after etc.) to make the order in which events happen clear to the reader.

* Use Direct Speech to make the story more interesting to the reader.