Here’s an example of writing a story under timed conditions when you have been given the last line. As I suggested in my previous blog post, knowing the ending can… Read More »Creative Writing Ending Prompt: ‘You have grown so wise, grown so terrible.’ (Ted Hughes) Unthank Writers.
This is a transcript of an ‘interview’ published on Superprof to accompany my profile. ( Superprof took over web tutor pages last year). Many of the thoughts are explored elsewhere… Read More »English Tuition Bolton Manchester: Why English Tuition can Transform you!
I recently posted parts of the following ‘interview’ on Superprof’s excellent new site. I reproduce aspects of the interview below, as the interview about English Tuition proved very fruitful in terms… Read More »English Tuition Bolton GCSE/GCE Literature and Creative Writing: How English Tuition boosts Confidence and Grades!
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!
Kate Atkinson visited Bolton Library last week and offered an inspiring(and wry!) discussion of her new novel, Transcription as well as many fascinating insights into the writing process. I was… Read More »Creative Writing Tuition Bolton Manchester: GCSE English Tuition/Tutor
Celeste Ng’s new novel, Little Fires Everywhere is a remarkable novel, not least because the writer privileges the essential humanity in her characters despite their fallibility. Another writer might have focussed on… Read More »English GCSE Tuition Bolton: Creative Writing Analysis-How to create interest with Celeste Ng.
After the heatwave, here’s a reminder of the sun’s implacable power. Notice the askew positioning of ‘one day’ at the end of the first line. How cunningly effective this invitation… Read More »GCSE English Reading Aloud: Little Dorrit by Dickens. ( Bolton Manchester Private English Tuition)
A few thoughts about comprehensions: reading and writing. 1) Who is speaking/narrating in the extract? How does the choice of narrator or speaker affect the passage? Ask yourself why the… Read More »English Tuition Bolton: Comprehensions and Writing tasks. A few ideas!
Comparing Texts. Compare how Boat Stealing and Darling Thrush present a spiritual experience. Introduction. Identify a common theme using the title. Indicate how the idea of spirituality can be… Read More »English GCSE Tuition Bolton Comparing Poems.
GCSE English-Moments of change: Why metamorphosis is central to storytelling. ‘’Everyone in Shaker Heights was talking about it that summer: how Isabelle, the last of the Richardson children, had… Read More »GCSE English Tuition Bolton Manchester: Moments in GCSE English Questions.
This chapter relates the last sighting of Dr Jekyll alive by his friend Gabriel Utterson. It is especially fascinating to me, because of the way Stevenson presents Jekyll partially transforming… Read More »Incident at the Window Analysis: Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde GCSE English Literature Tuition Bolton
Macbeth Act 2 Scene 2. LADY MACBETH Who was it that thus cried? Why, worthy thane, You do unbend your noble strength, to think So brainsickly of things. Go get… Read More »Macbeth Act 2 Scene 2: GCSE English Tuition Bolton Manchester
“That was a memorable day to me, for it made great changes in me. But, it is the same with any life. Imagine one selected day struck out of it,… Read More »English Tuition Bolton: Graham Swift’s Mothering Sunday-One life changing day.
I must say a few words about NaNoWriMo. It has boosted my writing productivity enormously and is great fun too! NaNoWriMo is the worldwide, motivational competition to write a 50000-word… Read More »Creative Writing Tuition Bolton, Manchester and Bury: NaNoWriMo 2017!
Sydney’s mind was like perfect amber. Things stayed longer in her head than even they thought possible! All Inclusions felt welcome in Sydney’s mind’. Domenica laughed at her joke… Read More »Creative Writing Tuition Bolton Manchester: The Amber Collector- Sydney
‘It was a cold grey day in late November.’ Thus begins Daphne Du Maurier’s Jamaica Inn. The dismal declaration of the weather foreshadows the uneasy tension surrounding the protagonist’s future… Read More »AQA GCSE Jamaica Inn Du Maurier: How the weather shapes the reader’s expectations.
Joanna Cannon’s best-selling first novel The Trouble with Goats and Sheep explores the secrets of seventies’ suburbia through the eyes of two ten year old detectives, who decide to spend… Read More »GCSE English Tuition Review: The Trouble with Goats and Sheep by Joanna Cannon
Romeo’s first glimpse of Juliet takes place at the Capulet’s Ball, where their masked presence allows them to fall in love and adds a deliciously provocative aspect to the scene.… Read More »GCSE English Romeo and Juliet Act 1 Sc.5 : PEEL Paragraph example TWO
This was a fun prompt on the Curtis Brown course(very enjoyable). The prompt read: ‘It spilled everywhere, just everywhere.” Once you start writing, you find it just… Read More »English Tuition Manchester Bolton: Creative Writing Prompts- ‘It spilled everywhere…’
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!
Dr Fabienne Ralphson declined a cup of tea and asked for silence. God, she loathed teachers. Look at them all assembled here this morning; she could smell their disappointment, their… Read More »Creative Writing Bolton Manchester Tuition GCSE: Contagion!
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?
