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Heya! We have talked before, and I just noticed that you were doing a bachelor of Ancient History at macquarie uni. That is the course I put down for my first choice with my UAC entries. Just wondering what the course is like? Thanks!

Yeah, and after you resolve the complication of your story, you can introduce a new one to leave the audience hanging at the end. I love doing that x]

Yep. None of those aspects should e left out if you are looking to acheive a high mark for creative writing. Although the introduction of the scene and characters in a short story often happens as the text progresses. Like, we are not introduced to the full character at the start of it like...

Agreed ^.^;

Yes it certainly does need to be resolved, and this does not mean it has to end happily. As long as the complication is resolved in some way. With your example, of the person not belonging even after the events that is perfectly acceptable. In that sense the discussion would be the resolution...

I am lucky in that I go to a relatively small school. Most of my classes have less than ten people in them, and so I get lots of one on one time with my teacher. If this is the case for you, then utilise the resources you already have (lol, we can count teachers as a resource). Your teachers at...

For most of my exams there is alot of writing involved (ancient history, adv english, ext english, ext history) and so just before the exams I go out and buy like 15 pens. And I take all those pens into the exam because I am paranoid one will run out on me! It's happened before... not fun.

Took the words right out of my mouth. An essential part of getting a good mark in the English HSC exams is interpretting the question and ANSWERING it. If you don't answer the question the way it asks you too you are unlikely to get anything over 12.

I don't think i've ever prepared for a creative story in an exam. And I always seem to get 13/15 + Generally when I write stories for exams I make sure I only have 1 or two focus characters, and I make the complication of the story simple in order for it to be resolved. I generally focus the...

Him and Romeo would get along well.

Ah it's okay. I didn't take it as you having a go at me ^.^; And okay then. It's a shame i live in a small country town with little access to good records and such. Ah well. Thanks anyway!

That is very true actually, and I don't mean to sound as if I am passing it off just as exaggeration, for it would make sense that the Greeks would defeat the Persians despite their large numbers at Marathon (as they certainly were more well disciplined, they used the geography of the area to...

Yes that idea sounds very reasonable. For the more powerful the empire they crushed is the more amazing the Greeks look. It's similar to the way that they exaggerated the numbers of Persian warriors in the battles, such as the way Herodotus wrote about Marathon, he said that the sky was blacked...

1. The game of cat and mouse. 2. Katherine (Kat... hahahaha bad pun) 3. Female 4. A penthouse over looking the harbour, sydney 5. Thriller/Crime fiction 6. Heh. Now? 7. Nope. Though I wish I had.

And for once I felt that I had achieved something with my life, not something for myself, but something for someone else. And with that thought, even though I knew it was the end, I couldn’t help but smile.

I got 35/40 on it. Which was the top in my class. So I am pleased with that. But As someone else has already pointed out, mark doesn't matter it's all about rank.

My veiw on Xerxes is that he is a very powerful leader. In the play The persians by Aeschylus, this is often demonstrated. Though in the play they demonise him with his power (as the text was written by an Athenian Playwrite for Greek entertainment) I think that it was important in running a...