This week, half term, I have been writing my ‘P#zazz Pizza’ review and re-drafting my travel writing piece.
I quite enjoyed the task of writing a restaurant review, which was with provided ‘notes’ from when I ‘visited the restaurant.’ I had never written a review for a restaurant review and so found it fun to try something new. However, my first draft had consisted of about 700 words, and when I read the task again, I saw that it must be only 300. So I then had to begin re-drafting, and cutting out a lot, which I found to be the most difficult part. This took a long time, as I didn’t know which bits I could sacrifice, and didn’t want to lose the personal voice I had created by taking out some of the quirky comments. But eventually, I managed to get it down to exactly 300 words, and I think that it is a lot more concise now as there is less of my waffling.
For my travel writing, I read through the part of my newest draft that I had already written, and then made some notes about parts/details that I could add to it. I remembered about the little boy who was staying on a pitch near us, which is a sweet story, and so I thought I would dedicate my biggest paragraph to this. So I began writing it. I tried to keep my ‘voice’ throughout, and to make it as interesting as possible by slightly exaggerating some details in order to add humour. For example, putting up the tent was pretty easy, but I thought it would make a better story if I tried to create a comical image of the four of us struggling. Overall I am quite pleased with how this draft ended up, and I think that it has improved drastically since the first draft.
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