Writer's Top Tips

A message from Baroness Floella Benjamin, this year's lead writer:

"Writing the World is such a brilliant idea and I am thrilled to be this year's writer.  When I was a child my father told my brothers and sisters and I fantastic stories from every continent which opened our minds to the world and made us curious about other cultures.  His stories stimulated our imaginations as we visualised the characters and places in them.  I hope this exciting project will inspire children, not only to read and enjoy storytelling, but to create their own stories, because everyone can be creative, all it takes is imagination."            

Floella's TOP TIPS for writing your story on London....

• Set your imagination free and see what pops up.
• Try to write about your experiences, your own life, your emotions or something you like or dislike a lot.
• Before you start writing a story make some notes about what is going to be in it, you can add new ideas and move them around before beginning to write the full story.
• Make sure you plan a beginning, a middle, and an end.
• You don’t have to get it perfect first time, just keep writing, you can always cut bits out, add bits or move things around. The main thing is to get it written.
• Finally, I always speak out the words as I write them down as though I am telling someone the story so the reader will get that personal feeling, the impression that I am speaking to them and them alone!

Good Luck!