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Imaginative Writing Plan: Prison Escape, Tips - Coggle Diagram

- - - - Beatings, starvation, freezing,
      - women
    - - guards, dogs, electric fence, rations, comradeship
      - men soldiers (brainy)
  - - - my tall frame, heavy clumping, massive hands
      - can talk about things that I can see or use, not about facial features, only if I can 'feel' them
      - my face tightened, my jaw dropped, I clapped my hands to my face, I punched my massive fist into his mouth
    - - haggard, shrivelled, shrunken appearance
      - eyes:
        
        men
        
        scared, frightened, wild, mad
        
        women
        
        teary, mad, puffy, frightened
        
        icy, radiant,
      - mentality:
        
        psychotic, schizophrenic, deranged, irrational, crazed
      - face:
        
        tight, taught, pressurised
        
        relieved, expressive, delicate features, manly, hard jawline,
- - - - beginning of escape - dangerous journey to fence
        
        get to fence and climb it, out of hole, time it right
        
        make it over/ die trying/ get shot but keep going
        
        crunch point - need the guts, now or never, do or die, point of no return - some ppl chicken out/ claustrophobia, blind, terror-stricken, panicked - hyperventilating
        
        creeping around, in tunnel/ bravely facing guards and defeating or deceiving them
      - don't say much about this - only touch lightly as a flashback, or a still moment when nearing crunch point (everything is still and silent, remember things, look at clothes, feel sharp ID card in pocket
- - - - Opening with dialogue – “I wouldn’t tell them, I couldn’t”
      - Opening with a question – “Surely they hadn’t witnessed what I had?”
      - Opening with mystery/ or a lack of important information – “The mist touched the top of the mountains like a gentle kiss, as Penelope Walker stared out from behind the cold, rigid bars that separated her from the world.”