Considering strategies for refining and editing your descriptive writing | English

Starter quiz

What do you need at the start of every sentence?
- a full-stop
- a capital letter ✓
- a lower-case letter
Which piece of punctuation belongs at the end of a sentence?
- a full-stop ✓
- a comma
- a semicolon
Where does the apostrophe need to go in this sentence: 'Marys fingers stretched towards the branches.'?
- 'Marys' fingers stretched towards the branches.'
- 'Mary's fingers stretched towards the branches.' ✓
- you don't need an apostrophe
Which of the following words is a synonym for 'bad'?
- captivating
- dreadful ✓
- cascading
- delightful
If something is ambitious then it is ______.
- hard to achieve ✓
- easily achieved
- not wanted by anyone
Where does the semicolon need to go in this sentence: 'The bees hummed and buzzed the birds swooped and twittered.'?
- 'The bees hummed; and buzzed the birds swooped and twittered.'
- 'The bees hummed and buzzed; the birds swooped and twittered.' ✓
- 'The bees hummed and buzzed the birds swooped; and twittered.'

Free writing means ______.
- to simply write without worrying about clarity or accuracy ✓
- to create an indepth plan before you begin writing
- to revise and edit a piece of writing
Creativity means ______.
- to reproduce someone else's work
- to produce or use original and unusual ideas ✓
- to produce ideas that have been seen before
Revising a piece of writing is where you ______.
- plan out how you're going to meet the success criteria
- look back over your work to improve it ✓
- write down all your ideas about an image without worrying about clarity
Which out of the following words is the most ambitious?
- good
- nice
- dazzling ✓
Where should the comma(s) go in this sentence: 'The flowers which had just started to bloom smelled divine.'?
- 'The flowers, which had, just started to bloom smelled divine.'
- 'The flowers, which had just started to bloom smelled, divine.'
- 'The flowers, which had just started to bloom, smelled divine.' ✓
Which word is the correct homophone for this sentence: 'Mary stared at the flowers and ______ gorgeous hues.'
- there
- their ✓
- they're

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Free writing is designed to help you unleash your creativity.
Revising is where you look at or consider again a piece of writing in order to correct or improve it.
In order to evoke an emotional response from the reader, you need to carefully consider the words you use.
Accurate spelling, punctuation and grammar is essential to help your reader understand your writing.

That you always have to plan before a piece of creative writing.

While a plan is very useful, and should be used in most cases, sometimes free writing can be a way of unleashing creativity that can then be revised.

Creativity - The ability to produce or use original and unusual ideas.
Evoke - To bring or recall (a feeling, memory, or image) to the conscious mind..
Rewrite - The process of rewriting sentences, adding, dropping or reframing ideas and choosing more precise words.
Ambitious - It needs a lot of skill and effort to be successful.
Edit - The process of making technical corrections to a piece of writing.