Stories worth marking.

Craft guides for narrative and descriptive writing: openings, structure, imagery, sentence control and endings. This site is growing: the framework is here, and the craft guides arrive as the unit is taught.

What’s coming → The coursework, explained →

What this site will hold

Openings that earn attention (and clichés to avoid)
Structure: shape, time, tension and the placed detail
Sentence craft: variety, control and deliberate rule-breaking
Endings: landing a piece rather than stopping it

Part of the Extended English family, alongside the Klara and the Sun, Kindertransport and Poetry Anthology guides.