The demolition of Horwich Leisure Centre inspired this brief sketch. I was fascinated by the way that the new Centre coexisted with the old, as uneasy mirrors of each other,… Read More »Creative Writing Tuition Bolton: Bricks and Mortar-Or The Demolition of Horwich Leisure Centre!
The figure in these two phases haunted the lawyer all night; and if at any time he dozed over, it was but to see it glide more stealthily through sleeping… Read More »Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde : Utterson’s Dream Analysis-Where is Hyde’s face hiding? GCSE English Literature Bolton Manchester
What are the benefits of English Tuition? How can Private English Tuition benefit YOU? There are THREE important reasons that Private English Tuition benefits students. These reasons create positive change: they… Read More »English Tutor/Tuition Bolton Manchester: What are the benefits of Private English tuition?
Eunice Parchman killed the Coverdale family because she could not read or write. Ruth Rendell’s thriller A Judgement in Stone opens with a devastating clarity. We are in no… Read More »English Tuition Bolton Manchester: A perfect opening line by Ruth Rendell?
They used to hang men at Four Turnings in the old days. Not any more, though. Now, when a murderer pays the penalty for his crime, he does so up… Read More »My Cousin Rachel By Daphne Du Maurier: English GCSE/GCE Tuition Bolton Manchester
Tusitala has been resurrected this week after yet another hacking. Many thanks to Shaun Kirk for giving CPR to my site! I am very pleased to discover my blog once… Read More »English Tuition Bolton, Manchester and Bury: Summer 2017
Running with an idea and allowing your writing to flow gives you freedom. It stops the editor in your head censoring your writing straight away. We all… Read More »English Tuition Bolton Manchester: Creative Writing-Run with an idea! FLOW!
This has been the summer of Preston Child. A friend recommended the novels because of their co-authorship and because he knew I would love Preston Child’s hero. The FBI protagonist… Read More »English Tuition Bolton Manchester: Reading Summer of Thrillers-New and Old!
I’m fascinated by the idea of camouflage. We all develop our own versions of camouflage, whether in terms of behaviour, language or belief systems. Keats revised the original myth of… Read More »Keats’ Lamia: English Tuition Bolton Manchester GCSE/GCE English Literature Tuition
(Here’s a wandering, wondering mind! I love the lucidity of Woolf’s best writing and here, in a sentence of 181 words, she thoroughly imagines the ‘foreign… Read More »English Tuition Bolton: Virginia Woolf’s perfect sentence of 181 words? ‘On being ill.’
We all feel ‘stuck’ sometimes with our writing and the most common problem I hear as an English tutor in Bolton is: ‘I don’t know where to start.” Hemingway’s… Read More »Creative Writing: Hemingway’s Best Advice? ONE TRUE SENTENCE!
Here’s another post about an Edith Wharton ghost story called ‘The Triumph of Night.’ ( Now there’s a masterclass on the effect of a resonant metaphor just in the title of the… Read More »Edith Wharton’s The Triumph of Night Analysis TWO (English Tuition Bolton Manchester)
I reread Edith Wharton’s short story ‘The Triumph of Night’ again yesterday, as I remembered finding it frustrating as it was both enjoyable and unsatisfying. Certain aspects of the story… Read More »English Tuition Bolton Manchester: Edith Wharton’s The Triumph of Night Analysis ONE!!
Partly inspired by Blake’s wonderful poem The Schoolboy containing the ageless wisdom: How can the bird that is born for joy Sit in a cage and sing? Partly by Stephen… Read More »Creative Writing Bolton Manchester Bury: 50 word tale-Duty ?
A few Christmases ago I treated myself to a copy of Ray Bradbury’s collection of essays about the writing called Zen and the Art of Writing. It remains one of… Read More »English Tuition/turor Bolton Manchester Bury: Ray Bradbury-My Summer of Love!! (ONE)
Villainy The villain is the hero of his or her own story. ..symbiotic relationship with hero… Unity of opposites? Your villain is a dark reflection of your hero’s wants, needs… Read More »English Tuition Bolton Manchester: Creating a Villain- Count Fosco The Woman in White.
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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.
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!
I am still in the process of trawling through old bits and pieces of writing and seeing if there are any elements with any potential for transformation. As I noted… Read More »English Tuition Creative Writing Bolton Manchester Bury: Face in the Wall and Coldness of Plaster!
If the past is a ‘foreign country’ and we do things ‘differently there’ ( L.P.Hartley) then reading this old piece about young George and his pen confirmed It! For even… Read More »English Tuition Bolton: Creative Writing- Loneliness -The Face in the Wall
Creative writing in a hurry requires ideas and sometimes the pressure of examinations or need/desire to ‘produce’ a story kills off our creative flow! Lists though, can save us all!… Read More »Creative writing English TUITION Bolton Manchester : Stories in a HURRY!
Not unnaturally, the villagers were curious. And so on the night of July 26th, they flocked to the house. Each human being was clothed in the brightest colours of… Read More »Creative Writing Bolton Manchester Tuition : Ignite TWO!
My study is overflowing: yet today in rediscovering an old collection of short stories called Black Water(Manguel), which all explore the ‘Fantastic’ in one way or another- be they… Read More »English tuition Bolton Manchester Bury: A Perfect Insight by Robert Louis Stevenson?
February is over – in the orchard after midnight,muffled up against the cold, whiskey on the table,head back, staring skywards-I raise a glass to him- two months dead now-The… Read More »Brian Patten ‘Best of Mates’ : Analysis-Unseen Poetry GCSE English Tuition Bolton Manchester
1801.— I have just returned from a visit to my landlord—the solitary neighbour that I shall be troubled with. This is certainly a beautiful country! In all England, I do… Read More »Wuthering Heights GCE English Tuition Manchester Bolton-Chapter One Analysis.
I had just decided to accept a cigar from Hector but was interrupted by the appearance of another human being. ‘Mrs Mappass-Wynne’ announced Hector as a tall, faded figure approached… Read More »English tuition Bolton Manchester: Lunch with Saki! (Part Two)
James Mint stood smoking without any awareness of the danger he was in. I watched him and pretended to be checking the street for cats. I even named my non-existent… Read More »English Tuition Bolton Manchester: More Lamia as Detective tale!
