1. Audience Skill 1: Ways to make your story more interesting a) SUSPENSE Can you create suspense in the reader? Think of suspense as creating doubt, worry or uncertainty b) HUMOUR Can you create humour in your writing? Humour here is in situations rather than a joke c) FEELINGS Can you make your readers feel something? Think about how your characters feel... remember as I read your story I want to get to know your characters

2. a) How can you create suspense in the reader? Suspense will create problems, obstacles & disasters When writing, try to leave clues Think of painting a picture or completing a jigsaw puzzle - where you don’t see the complete picture until the end of the story.

3. Your turn...on the next slide will be 3 statements and 5 phrases. In 60 seconds add one phrase to each statement to create suspense in the form of questions

4. Phrase 1 “It was dark.” Phrase 2 “Can’t go back.” Phrase 3 “It was getting closer.” Phrase 4 “ She ran into the house.” Phrase 5 “She paused.” Statement 1 “She felt her heart pound.” Statement 2 “She couldn’t find her way.” Statement 3 “She was alone.” In 60 seconds add one phrase from the list to each statement to create suspense

5. Share and Listen Great work... You have created suspense in your audience 3 times, through combining 2 short sentences!

6. b) How can you create humour in the scenes in your writing? Exaggeration, understatement, word play, substituting characters = HUMOUR! Look at this statement and let’s try and make it funny by exaggeration: “She is boring” to... “She is so dull even the sun sets when she’s around!” Ok, maybe your not laughing out loud, but you probably did smile...

7. Your turn... In 60 seconds try and make this funny by exaggeration... “ There was a hole in the space time continuum.”

8. Share and Listen Funny work... You have created humour in your writing! It’s definitely one of those skills where you need to re-read and refine...keep thinking “funny”

9. c) How you can make your readers feel something? Try using the senses sight, smell, touch, taste, hearing + self for your characters So rather than... “He ran as fast as he could” try “He ran. He was clumsy and could smell the burn from he auxiliary engines. His own heart pounded faster than the engine”

10. Statement 1 “He went to fight” In 60 seconds add 3 senses to the statement to create feelings and emotion in a character

11. Share and Listen Wow! What good work... You have created emotion and feelings in your audience!