Strangers on a Train: Creative Writing Prompt GCSE English. Imagine a crowded train heading home to a city or town. It’s nearly Christmas Eve. The weather could be better. There… Read More »English Tuition Bolton: Creative Writing-Strangers on a Train.
Descriptive writing should have a purpose. Very often students forget that descriptive writing has a function and that this involves supporting the narrative through the creation of atmosphere. This atmosphere… Read More »GCSE Descriptive Writing: Bolton English Tuition
In a recent set of English tuition discussions several students examined the following extracts featuring rather powerful characters. Powerful characterisation forms the heart of a compelling story. Readers need characters… Read More »English Tuition Bolton Manchester: Character Description for GCSE- which is the most compelling?
THERE IS A city surrounded by water with watery alleys that do for streets and roads and silted up back ways that only the rats can cross. Miss your… Read More »Creative Writing Bolton Manchester: Winterson’s The Passion -the pleasures of getting lost!
It is but a glimpse of the world of fashion that we want on this same miry afternoon…. It is not a large world…. There is much good in it;… Read More »Descriptive Writing in Dickens’ Bleak House Chapter Two Analysis: Repetition and Trance.
[On the Aims of Poetry: Letter to J. H. Reynolds, 3 February 1818] Hampstead Tuesday. [ . . . ] We hate poetry that has a palpable design upon… Read More »English tutor/tuition Manchester, Bolton and Bury: Carson McCullers’ The Ballad of the Sad Cafe Analysis or Reflection!
Time and time again students ask how can they improve their writing and I always reply with the same imperative. READ! How simple and how empowering! Reading inspires you to… Read More »English Tutor Bolton and Manchester: Creative Writing the Saki way!
