I found just choosing what to do was the most difficult part so far, knowing that we could write literally any piece of text we wanted. I have settled on a short story, aimed at young children around aged 6 or 7, who would probably be reading with their parents. I originally had Roald Dahl's 'The Twits' as a style model, but I found that imitating his style of writing is not only incredibly difficult to do without just copying his ideas, but I also knew a story of the same complexity level as The Twits would have to be quite long, and I'd end up going over the word limit for my coursework, which would suck a little bit!
I am now writing the sort of story you'd find in a book of 'bedtime stories', so my story has to include very few characters and a simple plot, yet still be interesting to engage a young child. I'm actually finding it harder than I expected, but I plan on adding lots of little drawings I'll either scan onto it, or make on paint, so this will not only make it more interesting for the child who will (probably never!) read my story, but also give me an excuse to draw lots of cartoon zoo animals! :')
Anyway, the basic plot for my story is a little girl called Holly goes to the zoo with her parents on her birthday, and is rather unimpressed with the toy elephants in the gift shop, so she hatches up a plan to take the real elephant home with her!
I've even made a front-cover on paint :'), showcasing my EXCELLENT paint-drawing skills!
Izzie
P.S as you can probably guess from all the words I've randomly put in bold, I have only just discovered the panel thing just above the box where you write... my computer skills are growing by the day! :'D xxx
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