 Hello and welcome back to another GCSE revision lesson now. When it comes to creative writing, be it an image or just a question that you're presented with. The biggest challenge that by far students face is literally starting the first sentence of the creative story. What to write about? There's endless possibilities. Worse still, you literally have a blank page of paper in front of you and you've got to fill it up really quickly in timed conditions. Therefore guys, rather than spending and wasting precious time, especially during your assessments on figuring out, how do I start? Guys, I want to show you the best starting sentence to use in any creative writing story, be it whether it's set on a beach or if it's set in the city or if it's even set out in the mountains. Wherever it is, this sentence and this phrase, not only is it a perfect phrase, which will impress your teachers because it's got lots of ambitious vocabulary, but most importantly, it cuts away that time that you spend thinking, how do I even begin and how do I begin a story really strong so that when my teacher is reading it, they're already on my side. They're thinking, okay, this person knows exactly where they're going with their story. So guys, I want to present with you the sentence that you should use for any creative writing story to start yourself off, but also I'll explain to you why it's such a powerful sentence starter or on the story starter and I'll show you how it hits both assessment objectives, your AO5 and your AO6. This is the phrase to use in any creative writing story, whether you're going to start it and then it goes off into like a scary setting or it's going to go off into a really fun setting, whatever it is, start all your stories with this phrase, rising gently and torpedoedly across the Azure sky. The sun's rays gilded everything it touched with a misty sheen. Start all your creative writing stories with this phrase, memorize it, use it over and over again. Why? Number one, you then cut out that time that you spend initially wasting lots and lots of precious time at the beginning of your story thinking, how do I start it? But number two, it's also really powerful phrase that instantly attracts your teacher, okay, the kind of thinking, okay, where are they going to go with this story? Now guys, let me break down why this is such a powerful starting sentence for any creative writing story. Let's begin with the first and most important assessment objective, okay? This is your AO5. Obviously AO5 and AO6 are important, but AO6 is worth 20% of the overall marks, AO5 carries the bulk of these marks, okay? Now guys, remember when it comes to AO5, which is tested in creative writing, this tests your ability to communicate imaginatively, use ambitious vocabulary. It also checks what examiners caught your tone, style and register as well as structural features. Let me tell you firstly how this opening sentence communicates imaginatively. What you're doing in your opening sentence, you are using pathetic fallacy at the beginning of your story to set the scene, okay? And you're using interesting pathetic fallacy to do so. Therefore, what are you doing? You're already beginning by communicating imaginatively. Why else are you hitting your AO5? When it comes to ambitious vocabulary, you're using words like torpidly. If you don't know what torpidly means, watch the video that I did where I talk about the 10 clever words in your GCSE writing. I mentioned the meaning of that, okay? But also other ambitious words are things like describing the sky using this vivid color as your. Also talking about how the suns rays gilded everything, okay? Talking about how they made everything seem golden and equally they left a misty sheen, okay? So of course you're hitting your ambitious vocabulary points in AO5. Equally, what does tone, style and register mean when it comes to creative writing stories? Tone just simply means are you setting a really nice positive mood or you're setting a dark mood. Of course, this opening sentence starts off with a really nice and positive mood. Equally, style simply means are you able to write in a way that slows down the pace of your writing, which is what this complex sentence does. Or are you going to write with a really a series of short sentences, which speed up the pace of your writing. Register this means is it formal, well-spelled, or is it really, really informal? When it comes to creative writing, always write formally, okay? Use a formal register and find these structural features. As I mentioned, this is a complex sentence, okay? So of course you are also hitting the structural features requirement in AO5. However, let's also talk about AO6, okay? It's important, even if it's worth 20% of the overall marks, it's still important to hit your AO6 marks. Number one, AO6 tests your technical accuracy. In other words, are you able to spell and punctuate your sentences correctly? Have I done this in my opening sentence? Rising gently and torpently across it as your sky, comma. That's my first clause, okay? The sun's rays gilded everything it touched with a misty sheen. Full stop, I have demonstrated really good technical accuracy in my writing, in my opening sentence. Equally, of course, I've punctuated it really nicely. I've made it a nice opening complex sentence. Also, and this is as per the mark scheme, okay? If you read mark schemes, you're going to also see examiners refer to complex grammatical structures, right? What that means is, are you able to use a mix of your one-word sentences, but also your complex longer sentences? And I'll do that exactly in this sentence, okay? This is why I think this is such a perfect sentence to use to start with any creative writing. Memorize it, apply it, and you're going to find that it starts coming easier to you when you practice more and more stories, okay? I'm going to read through it one last time. Rising gently and torpently across it as your sky. The sun's rays gilded everything it touched with a misty sheen. Use that as your sentence starter and as a story starter for creative writing, and I guarantee your teacher is going to be super impressed with your story.