Writing to describe a journey plane,bus or car? What did you do how much time sepnd describing the Journey?

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OKay so firstly i did journey by bus and described loads of stuff am i the only one who did a bus most ppl i spoke to did plane or train i thought it would be limited because all you could do is describe the vechile for a bit but with a bus you could describe human interaction like ppl scurrying up to the upper deck etc. How did you guys describe a car and plane journey without being limited?

So how long did you spend actually describing the journey like the car bus or plane moving. I just described the bus for about a line or two blood red city bus then the interior and that was like a paragraph and for the next 1 and a half pages and a bit was the journey. Did you do that? Most ppl said they described the scenery too much like entering the plane the queues getting tickets and all that but that isnt part of the journey is it? Or am i wrong isnt the journey when take off plus. You could describe how it looked but only for a short time because it was a journey so you had to describe the journey.

Am i right or wrong? And did anyone do a bus Journey?

Answer 1

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I found doing a car journey alright as i set it from a child's point of view and there were other people in the car. Not that i used them much. I mentioned the mother and father and wrote a paragraph on the older sister as it set the scene well. i described the scenery most, but i also used the repetition of field and dull atmosphere to show how boring the journey was. i also used a sighting of friends to show that the boy really did not want to be in the car.
I have never been on a plane so i could not really do that and i have frequently made long car journeys and i thought that i could put my own experiences into the writing even if the family were completely different to mine.

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Best answer again Tessa your in luck 20pts in less than 2mins lol.

Gd luck

Answer 2

i did a bus journey too (spend half my life on them! lol) and it went awful. I didnt really describe the scenery at all... more about the interior and the people getting on or off.. though i didnt write that much overall...you know i definatly failed

Answer 3

I HATED that exam =[
I did bus journey and I mostly described the scenery

Answer 4

I wrote about a train journey.

I think I did OK - I wrote as if I was a jew on the train to a concentration camp.

Good luck!