Descriptive writing

Learn how to use language for effect, and see how word choices can bring your characters and settings to life.

Learn how to engage the reader in the opening paragraph of your story with attention-grabbing first lines.

Learn how to use linguistic devices such as similes and metaphors to add flavour to your writing by making evocative, sometimes surprising comparisons.

Learn more about adjectives, including descriptive, quantitative, superlative and comparative adjectives.

Learn how to write complex sentences to expand a short sentence, and to add more detail or meaning.

Not as final as a full stop but stronger than a comma; learn how a semicolon can either join or separate words.