Free writing loosens the pen and disinhibits our censoring mind. 500 words at a gallop give our imagination the opportunity to wander ‘away’- rather like Kezia in Mansfield’s brilliant New Zealand short… Read More »Creative Writing Tuition Bolton Manchester: The Whispers of Nefertiti Part Two.
Are these two of the best opening lines ever written? I find them both irresistible! For how can a reader resist reading on after such greetings? Both narrators sound just… Read More »English Tuition Bolton Manchester: Are these two of the best opening lines ever?
As a child, I loved reading Jules Verne and Robert Louis Stevenson; later, I adored the Indiana Jones’ films. This is a small extract from a longer story. I hope… Read More »Creative Writing Bolton Manchester Bury: The Three Whispers of Nefertiti.
Anything can inspire a story. Indeed our days are crowded with inspiration for anecdotes and if desired, written stories or poems. In the summer I stayed in a farm house… Read More »GCSE English Tuition Bolton Manchester Bury: Creative Writing- ‘Leaking’.
”I never hated a man enough to give him diamonds back.” (Zsa Zsa Gabor) Our Dreaming mind allows our daily mind to escape its… Read More »Creative writing Bolton Manchester:Dreams and Writing- Zsa Zsa Gabor takes a holiday.
A long time ago, I wandered into my weekly lecture at Liverpool University expecting my own English tutor, Steve Newman to talk about Keats’ poetry. I didn’t get Steve, instead… Read More »Creative Writing Bolton Manchester: Creating Character -a LAMIA!
Sometimes we only need a ‘trigger’ point memory to retrieve something we may have ‘lost’ in our past. At the Phoenix Writers’ Group in Horwich Bolton, we often explore different… Read More »Creative Writing Bolton Manchester:’Ribena’ Memory Roving and Trigger Points.
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 ?
I first read Oliver Sacks in 1986 when The Man who mistook his wife for a Hat was published by Picador. I was utterly absorbed by his stories of human… Read More »English Tuition Bolton: Oliver Sacks- The Man who mistook his wife for a hat.
John Mouldy I spied John Mouldy in his celler, Deep down twenty steps of stone; In the dusk he sat a-smiling Smiling there all alone. He read no book, he… Read More »English Tuition Bolton Manchester: Creative Writing-Horror with John Mouldy!
Reading helps us find out who we might be under cover so to speak! We don’t need to wear borrowed clothes when we read, we can truly imagine those what… Read More »English Tuition Bolton: Ray Bradbury’s Stories and My Summer of Love Two!
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.
‘‘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)
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
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?
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!
Once upon a time there was a woman who needed a change. She felt the need between her eyes. It was a heat, burning aside her all her cliches in her… Read More »Creative Writing Bolton Manchester: Lamia and the Change!
Over the weekend, during the wind, sleet and hail, I climbed up to Peel Tower near Ramsbottom, with Moira Eribenne who captured the extraordinary aliveness of the place with her camera,… Read More »Creative Writing Bolton Manchester: Peel Tower Walk with Hardy’s Two on a Tower!
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
A few years ago I wrote several fragments of writing entitled The Face in the Wall. I enjoyed the idea of a mean house being scrutinized by a sentient face imprinted… Read More »Creative Writing Bolton Manchester: Plasticine Revised!
As I was looking over some creative writing tips for the Bolton School Entrance Examination, I found a series of bullet ideas arranged under the title ‘A Significant meeting.‘ It… Read More »English Tuition Bolton Manchester: Creative Writing Challenge ONE!
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!
