Using the writer's craft to inspire own writing: understand the requirement

1. Specification focus. Students should use what they have learned about the writer’s craft in their reading of fiction to inspire and influence their own imaginative writing.
2. What success looks like. A successful response makes purposeful choices, supports them with relevant evidence or crafted detail, and explains how those choices meet the task.

Using the writer's craft to inspire own writing: practical method

1. Decode form, purpose and audience. These conditions control voice, content, organisation and register. Make them visible in the opening choices.
2. Plan a deliberate shape. Order paragraphs so each has a clear role and the piece develops rather than repeats. Use cohesion to express logical links.
3. Craft for effect. Choose precise vocabulary and vary sentence structures to control tone, pace and emphasis. Imagination must remain coherent.
4. Proofread systematically. Check meaning and paragraphing first, then grammar, punctuation and spelling. Correct patterns of error, not only obvious slips.

Using the writer's craft to inspire own writing: apply and improve

1. Worked application. In an imaginative task, a recurring concrete detail can link the opening and ending. Sentence length may then shift at the turning point to mark a change in pace or understanding.
2. Improve through diagnosis. Name the precise weakness, such as unsupported inference, thin analysis, weak organisation or inaccurate expression, then revise that feature and compare the result.