Think on the world and all of the life within it, scientists are currently debating weather to try and bring back extinct species – not just the wooly mammoths but the creatures we have wiped out in the last few years. We can bring them back but if there is no place for them to live – what then?

Read up on an animal or plant that is endangered or maybe already extinct. What did it look like? Was it something you’d have liked to see in your garden or a monster that could squish you easily? How did it become endangered or extinct? Where did it live and if the scientists bought it back what would happen? Where would it live.

What would it eat? Imagine what it would feel like to stroke and the smell of resins in its leaves. Maybe look at a whole ecosystem, marshes or deserts or the ocean floor. Fill your head with it and then go for a walk in you local town and park – how would your chosen subject fit in?

Once you have done all of this you should sit down quietly and begin writing do not worry initially about where it is going just write.