The 11+ Creative Writing Mastery Series
Eight books that replace the blank page with a method: the Writing Formula, model settings and characters, 6-minute drills and the literary devices, plus the comprehension question-types guide and the scholarship interview guide.
The Technique Booklet
The complete Writing Formula in more than 380 pages: plan in five minutes, write four paragraphs, check your own work, then every other kind of task.
Your Writing Toolkit
Every checklist, every mistake to avoid, the glossary and seven templates, open beside every piece of writing.
Settings & Characters
The scholarship groundwork: five annotated model settings, two bonus settings and five model characters, each with the blueprint behind it.
Settings & Characters: Model Descriptions
Ten short model paragraphs to read, learn and adapt: five settings and five characters.
6-Minute Drills
Every setting and character written against the clock, marked out of 10, then redrafted to scholarship standard.
SHAMPOOP Plus Literary Devices Handbook
The eight devices every 11+ writer needs, with hundreds of examples and scholarship upgrades, then the devices that reach GCSE.
The 11+ Question Types Guide: English Comprehension
Seventeen comprehension question types: how to spot each, what the examiner wants, the method, and real past-paper examples.
The Scholarship Interview Guide
What top independent schools really ask at interview, one answer method for any question, and school-by-school profiles.
Most children are told to use their imagination. Ours are given a formula.
Creative writing is the paper where a bright child can freeze at the title, or pour out ideas with no shape and run out of time. The marks go to a plan, a structure and precise choices. The Writing Formula turns each of those into something a child can practise at the kitchen table.
The five-minute plan
Four decisions as soon as the title is read: setting, character, problem, ending. Each one picked from a portfolio already built, so the page is never blank and the story never drifts from the question.
Four paragraphs, one job each
The place and the mood. One character, shown not told. A problem that gets worse, then worse still. An ending that sorts it out. The same shape for every title, so practice adds up.
Drilled against the clock
Every setting and character written in six minutes, marked out of 10 and redrafted until it scores 9 or 10. Then adapted to new titles, so on the day it bends to whatever the paper asks.
The 11+ Creative Writing Mastery Series, all 8 books
- The Writing Formula and everything that supports it, from the first plan to the scholarship interview
- Comprehension question types and interview preparation included
- One login, one child, open until the end of the exam season
- The order to work through them, included