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  • 16-05-2010 8:26pm
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    theowen
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    I'm going to do an English paper 1 short story in about an hour. I want to do it from a new title, so can someone come up with one, please:D.


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    zam
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    theowen wrote: »
    I'm going to do an English paper 1 short story in about an hour. I want to do it from a new title, so can someone come up with one, please:D.

    It's harder to come up with an original one than to actually write one :P
    Ok... So do the 2003 short story... :D


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    There must be loooads of them in your past papers!


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    theowen
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    There must be loooads of them in your past papers!
    There is, just I've been looking at them the last three years!:p I want to create that feeling of the LC where your looking at a title you've never seen an you've only a few mins to come up with a plot etc:rolleyes:


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    Write a short story in which the central character is a dreamer.


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    fauxshow
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    I had to do one a made-up one a while ago that was: Write a short story entitled ''The Liar''


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    randylonghorn
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    Write a short story illustrating the theme ...

    ... that "pride comes before a fall".

    ... that "actions speak louder than words".

    ... that "the road to hell is paved with good intentions".


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    I had to write a short story entitled 'The Inside of a Ping Pong Ball'. Away you go!


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    theowen
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    randylonghorn wrote: »
    Write a short story illustrating the theme ...

    ... that "pride comes before a fall".

    ... that "actions speak louder than words".

    ... that "the road to hell is paved with good intentions".
    Just finished that one. Thanks Randy, and everyone else:rolleyes::)


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    randylonghorn
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    Deleted User wrote: »
    I had to write a short entitled 'The Inside of a Ping Pong Ball'. Away you go!
    Hmmm ... I'm immediately envisaging a scifi / fantasy / Gulliver's Travels type approach ... :D


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    randylonghorn wrote: »
    Hmmm ... I'm immediately envisaging a scifi / fantasy / Gulliver's Travels type approach ... :D
    I based mine on a condition I saw on House called 'Locked In Syndrome', where you're fully paralysed but still fully sentient. I scared 2 teachers with it :D


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    randylonghorn
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    Deleted User wrote: »
    I based mine on a condition I saw on House called 'Locked In Syndrome', where you're fully paralysed but still fully sentient. I scared 2 teachers with it :D
    Huh ... I haven't even read it and the very thought scares me!

    I occasionally have dreams where I can't move and people are doing unspeakable things to me! :(

    And not the 'good' type of unspeakable things ... those dreams are fun!! >_>


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    randylonghorn wrote: »
    Huh ... I haven't even read it and the very thought scares me!

    I occasionally have dreams where I can't move and people are doing unspeakable things to me! :(

    And not the 'good' type of unspeakable things ... those dreams are fun!! >_>
    Hahahaha! Yeah all the doctors thought he was brain dead and he couldn't protest so...


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