 Hello and welcome to part three of my Creative Writing Sentence Starter Series. Now I put up a poll and lots of you guys in voting basically said that the most challenging part of your English ECSEs is creative writing and especially coming up with story starters, sentence starters. How do you begin every single paragraph in your creative writing story with a really powerful sentence so that you don't waste too much valuable time especially during your assessments and eventually in your exams trying to figure out okay how can I even start this paragraph okay. So now in this video what I'm going to give you guys is the best sentence starter for your problem paragraph this is where you introduce the obstacle that your protagonist your main character in your story is going to face. Now remember that when it comes to creative writing I always recommend to my students go for the story and follow the story mountain structure. Story mountain is simply five paragraphs in your creative writing story paragraph number one is your beginning paragraph paragraph number two is your build up paragraph paragraph number three which I'm going to go over right now is your problem paragraph paragraph number four is your resolution and paragraph number five is your ending. So in your third paragraph where you get into your problem you've created a build up now you want to use a really impactful sentence and a sentence starter that shows okay now things are changing okay there's a plot twist and how can you write a really powerful effective sentence starter for your problem paragraph use this phrase okay. Just then I heard a rustle then a clatter then a low rumbling which slowly rose and reverberated through dash I've put the dash in because this phrase is meant to be used for any setting and for any type of story hence this rustle then this clatter then this rumbling literally you then think okay if I've set my story in the forest then all of these noises reverberate through the forest however if it's in the city maybe in like a really narrow alleyway then this rustle then clatter and rumbling reverberates through the city's alleyway okay. So let me explain to you guys why this is the perfect sentence starter for your paragraph for your problem paragraph even okay now remember when you're doing creative writing you are tested on your AO5 so assessment objective five and assessment objective six okay let me explain to you guys why this problem sentence starter is powerful in answering and showing your teacher that you're not only addressing AO5 but also your AO6 marks okay. Now remember AO5 essentially test your ability to communicate imaginatively use ambitious vocabulary have a good tone style and register as well as powerful structural features how does this sentence in your problem paragraph achieve that number one when it comes to communicating imaginatively this is a very imaginative description of the sounds that you can hear of either the villain or an animal or something that's now going to cause your problems in your problem paragraph okay so of course this is this phrase is really communicating imaginatively it's gripping your reader equally it uses lots of ambitious vocabulary okay ambitious words for example rustle clatter rumbling lots of onomatopoeia equally how these noises reverberate they echo again that is really really powerful ambitious language okay equally the tone is now quite dark it's really scary it's ominous in terms of style of course because it's written in a mix of simple and a complex sentence the style is really really powerful okay so you kind of speeding up the pace but also slowing it down speeding up slowing it down that's what your problem paragraph should do it's now taking your reader on a little bit of an emotional roller coaster equally in terms of structural features as I said this has lots of powerful structural features you've got simple sentence then a clatter and then also of course you have this long complex sentence it's a really nice mix of structural features however don't forget you need to also make sure you are hitting your a06 which is 20% of the overall marks available for creative writing however it's still really important because firstly in a06 you need to demonstrate technical accuracy make sure your spelling and punctuation is correct that is done here okay equally you want to use complex grammatical features again this phrase is powerful because it does use complex grammatical features I'm using a slightly long complex simple sentence with a short simple sentence and then so that speeds up the pace but then I then slow it down immediately by using a long complex sentence okay so I'm making lots of use of complex grammatical features again this is something a lot of students really struggle with and they never quite achieve in their stories okay so when it comes to your problem paragraph make sure you start your problem and you know create tension and create a build up using this phrase just then I heard a rustle then a clatter then a low rumbling which slowly rose and reverberated through blah blah blah whichever setting you have selected okay so guys thanks so much for listening and of course come back for the resolution paragraph sentence starter