”I never hated a man enough to give him diamonds back.” (Zsa Zsa Gabor)    Our Dreaming mind allows our daily mind to escape its limitations and censorship. One of the most liberating and creative aspects of a dream maybe the way in which

I can listen no longer in silence. I must speak to you by such means as are within my reach. You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope. Tell me not that I am too late, that such precious feelings are gone for ever. I offer myself to you again with a heart even more your own than

My previous blog post shows how useful it is to model your openings on the successful openings of other published writers and this second illustration utilizes a ‘model’ from Pulman’s The Tin Princess.  The book opens with the following engaging first line and is a s

  It was about eleven o’clock in the morning, mid October, with the sun not shining and a look of hard wet rain in the clearness of the foothills. I was wearing my powder-blue suit, with dark blue shirt, tie and display handkerchief, black brogues, black wool socks with dar

  Mr. Tulkinghorn takes out his papers, asks permission to place them on a golden talisman of a table at my Lady’s elbow, puts on his spectacles, and begins to read by the light of a shaded lamp. “‘In Chancery. Between John Jarndyce–‘” My Lady

Bella owned a collection of watches that each told her the correct time when she checked them. If anyone else checked the watches they lay there lifeless, telling a fixed time, irrelevant until Bella herself selected one and then smiled as she recognised the right moment. The time var

IT was a hot afternoon, and the railway carriage was correspondingly sultry, and the next stop was at Templecombe, nearly an hour ahead. The occupants of the carriage were a small girl, and a smaller girl, and a small boy. An aunt belonging to the children occupied one corner seat, an

As Easter approaches students are aware of the nearness of May with the GCSE, A Level and Undergraduate examinations. If you are facing any of these examinations and need a boost of ideas and confidence, then a session or two of English tutoring can lift grades and spirits! It can hel