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I am really enjoying several UDEMY courses at the moment including a course by Sean Platt whose eBooks on kindle publishing are highly motivating and energizing as well as practical.… Read More »Creative writing Bolton Manchester- The Fire-bird’ : Sketch a story with just FIVE words/ideas!
Last week I posted a an extract from a short story by Ray Bradbury where he used a second person narrator. The effect of this narrative view point is very… Read More »Creative Writing Bolton Phoenix Writers: Second Person Narrative Shifts!
It’s rather humid in Horwich (Bolton) today. A little heavy and rainy and as I drank my cup of tea I thought of my brother’s Southern Home State of North Carolina… Read More »Creative Writing Bolton Manchester 50 Word Tale: Bayou time.
“Deep silence fell about the little camp, planted there so audaciously in the jaws of the wilderness. The lake gleamed like a sheet of black glass beneath the stars. The… Read More »English Tuition Bolton Manchester Bury: Creative Writing ‘The Wendigo’ by A. Blackwood!
‘‘I wonder that the great master who knew everything, when he called Sleep the death of each day’s life, did not call Dreams the insanity of each day’s sanity.” (Dickens,… Read More »50 word Short Story: ”The Dream Planter”-Creative Writing Bolton Manchester Bury.
Loosening up our creative writing ‘muscles’ is made easy through a dalliance with the second person ‘you’ narrator. For when you write as ‘you’ the pen feels liberated and can… Read More »Ray Bradbury ”The Night”: Creative Writing- Second person narrator(English Tuition Bolton Manchester)
A few weeks ago I walked around Barrow Bridge Village in Bolton. The village is beautiful and wherever you walk you can hear running water. Moss hangs luxuriantly over… Read More »50 word tales: Beware Moss! ( Creative Writing Tuition GCSE English Bolton Manchester)
Little Momma left them in June. Most days they dropped by, concerned she might miss them. They quit work. They listened hard; softly too. ”Hold to thy faith,” intoned Pastor Paul.… Read More »Creative Writing Bolton: More 50 word tales- Little Momma
The Horwich Carnival may soon be upon us and this short 50 word tale came to me in tribute to all those poor goldfish trapped in bowls, yearning for something… Read More »50 Word Story Creative Writing Bolton Manchester: Goldfish have yearnings too.
I could smell chilli pesto. ‘Search in my small bag.’’ Your voice carried smiles in it. Sunshine lit up the room. There was a brown bag over a chair.… Read More »50 word tales Bolton Manchester-‘Looking’ : Creative Writing Phoenix Writers-
As you like it. She pretended to be myopic and it suited her. … Read More »Creative Writing 50 word short story: As You like it-with the Lamia!
Cleaning That was the summer I changed to thin bleach. I could be brave about stains. It was the other that unsettled me . But bleach… Read More »English Tuition Bolton Manchester: 50 word short story ‘Cleaning’ creative writing Bolton
Bats. ‘They’re all swooping about again.” ‘Harriet, your eyes are closed.” ‘I know.’’ Then she fell asleep. Apparently it was my turn to create dinner. In her kitchen such colourful… Read More »Creative Writing Bolton Manchester: 50 word short story- Bats.
And so the house came to be haunted by the unspoken phrase: There must be more money! There must be more money! The children could hear it all the time… Read More »English Tuition Bolton Manchester: D H Lawrence’ The Rocking Horse Winner’ ANALYSIS.’
Writing a 50 word short story is great fun and an excellent way to discipline your writing and recognize the value and effect of word choice. Short stories, like poetry,… Read More »GCSE Creative Writing: 50 word short story-The Blue Bus. (Bolton, Manchester).
We were looking at objects the other week and I was still on my DH Lawrence binge! So this owes an obvious debt to Lawrence’s story, The Rocking Horse Winner… Read More »Creative Writing Bolton, Horwich Manchester: Phoenix Writing Group-The brass horse and jockey.
Our experience of life is often thwarted by our inability to express what we feel through our words. It is as if language is always apart from us, apart from… Read More »Creative Writing Bolton Manchester: Finding the right words with Katherine Mansfield-‘ Ah -what is it?- that I heard?
Saki is a sardonic, frequently brilliant writer whose stories are often surreal and always witty: his style embraces Wilde, Carroll and even Austen herself. If many of the tales are… Read More »English Tuition Bolton Manchester: Saki’s ‘Sredni Vashtar’ Analysis How to write a short story- the chilling way!
”If a writer of prose knows enough of what he is writing about he may omit things that he knows and the reader, if the writer is writing truly enough,… Read More »GCSE English Tuition: How to create Character and Setting with The Daughters of the Vicar by D H Lawrence. TWO!
Here’s a devastating example of character assassination by DH Lawrence ! It is somewhat suggestive of the playful opening to Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice, but without the irony which defines… Read More »English Tuition Bolton Manchester: The Daughters of the Vicar analysis ONE.
Later she heard her children playing in the garden. Lottie’s stolid, compact little voice cried: “Ke—zia. Isa—bel.” She was always getting lost or losing people only to find them again,… Read More »Katherine Mansfield’s Prelude: Analysis -Kezia’s rebellion from conventionality.
Woolf’s reading of Jane Austen’s characterization of Mr Woodhouse, seamlessly explores Austen’s deployment of narrative ‘point of view’. For Woolf is a brilliant reader. She recognizes here that Austen makes her characterization… Read More »Creative Writing Bolton Manchester’Her heart was made of liquid sunsets’: Virginia Woolf’s How should one read a book?
A few months ago when it was warm enough to sit outside in Turton Tower’s beautiful garden and drink tea, I took a notebook and made a few notes.… Read More »GCSE English Tuition Bolton Manchester: How a setting can inspire a story.
The Stone HareThink of it waiting three hundred million years, not a hare hiding in the last stand of wheat, but a premonition of stone, a moonlit reef where corals reach for the… Read More »Gillian Clarke’s The Stone Hare: GCSE Unseen Poem Analysis-English Tuition Bolton Manchester
Here is another wonderful example of young Jane Austen’s writing, of her natural genius for the surreal, where her earnest letter writer’ Elizabeth Johnson’, reveals her mother’s proclivities for a… Read More »English Tuition Bolton Manchester: Jane Austen’s ‘Clara letter’- the challenge of keeping up with mother!
This short piece of writing records a dream about Katherine Mansfield in 2007! She did have wet hair and was very hungry, being perhaps marooned in another dimension where breakfast is… Read More »English tutor Bolton Manchester: Katherine Mansfield for Breakfast Reprise of ‘Toast’!
”I murdered my father at a very early period of my Life, I have since murdered my Mother, and I am now going to murder my Sister. I have changed… Read More »Jane Austen’s early years- a Pre-Darcy moment! English Tuition Bolton Manchester Bury
Synthesis brings together separate elements to make a new and coherent whole. Our ability to synthesize different ‘readings’ or experiences help us make sense of our world. Synthesis helps our… Read More »English Tuition Bolton Manchester: Dylan Thomas, King Kong and the Minotaur- Writing tip- SYNTHESIS makes analysis real.
Walking inspires your writing because it liberates our heads from our daily ‘mind forg’d manacles’ as Blake would say! We get into ‘flow’ and words and ideas become loosened up… Read More »Creative Writing English Tuition Bolton Manchester Bury: Walking to Inspire Writing-Peel Tower Ramsbottom!
English tuition helps with confidence ….. Our confidence is not fixed, it fluctuates. One day we can feel bold , witty and interesting, on another we can feel dull as… Read More »Creating confidence and rapport: English Tuition Bolton Manchester Bury and Dickens too!
