Remember Memoir writing involves exploring the spirit of remembrance rather than the literal, moment-by-moment event. Truth is relative. Alter names and you free yourself of the shackles of the grindingly… Read More »GCSE English Creative Writing: Memoir Writing. Write about A CHANGE or LESSON. ( Bolton English Tuition)
Two Letters: A simple way to deepen your characters. I am reading Hilary McKay’s wonderful children’s novel, The Skylarks’ War. It is set at the time of the First World… Read More »GCSE Creative Writing Letter prompt: English Tuition Bolton Manchester.
Inspired by a free writing exercise undertaken on Unthank’s Writing Fiction Course with the excellent and inspiring, Georgina Parfitt. All you need is a timer and give yourself permission to… Read More »Parrots. ( GCSE Creative Writing Bolton )
GCSE Creative Writing: First-Person Narrators. How to create a compelling opening. Read these two openings and see how the writers create their characters and entice their readers. Part IChapter II… Read More »GCSE English Creative Writing (Bolton English Tuition) First Person Narrators and Compelling Openings.
GCSE English Creative Writing- ‘Hot Seating’: Tips for the Development of your Characters. This technique is touted widely as a powerful yet simple way of deepening your characterisation. It is… Read More »GCSE Creative Writing Tips (Bolton English tuition) Hot-Seating your characters.
Here is a short story with a word count of just under 300 words. When you limit your word count it can help intensify your ideas and give your creative… Read More »GCSE Creative Writing English Tuition Bolton: 300 Word Stories. Why can a word limit can boost your writing?
Dracula’s Castle: Jonathan Harker’s First Impressions. ( English Year 7/8) I stood in silence where I was, for I did not know what to do. Of bell or knocker there… Read More »English Tuition Bolton: Dracula’s Castle First Impressions. ( Year 7)
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.
In my beginning is my end.‘ ( T. S. Eliot, East Coker, The Four Quartets) ‘In my end, is my beginning.’ Mary, Queen of Scots. This is a powerful, yet simple… Read More »GCSE English Creative Writing Tips( English Tuition Bolton) Phoenix Writers.
I’ve been overshadowed by life,’ said Felicity Walsingham to her new Uncle Blackstone. She took solace in her Guinness and attempted to reshape her fringe. There was little natural light in… Read More »GCSE Creative Writing Tips 300 Word tales( English Tuition Bolton Manchester)
Here’s a simple task that works well under timed conditions. Confine yourself to 300-words and set a timer for 5 minutes. See how far you can pursue an idea and… Read More »Creative Writing 300-word story: GCSE English Tuition Bolton Manchester
Mrs Dalloway said she would buy the flowers herself Task. Here is the opening line of Virginia Woolf’s novel, Mrs Dalloway. Consider what you might understand about the protagonist and… Read More »Creative Writing GCSE English MasterClass and Analysis with Virginia Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway (English Tuition Bolton).
Chapter 1 ON THE LOOK OUT In these times of ours, though concerning the exact year there is noneed to be precise, a boat of dirty and disreputable appearance,with two… Read More »GCSE Creative Writing and Language/Literature Analysis Skills: Dickens Our Mutual friend 19th Century fiction.
Dickens and Duality: Why hypocrisy is great to explore in writing! Introduction. Last time, we explored the use of repetition as a key to unlocking character, particularly through the perspective… Read More »Creative Writing and Repetition: Bolton English Tuition GCSE (Dickens and Uriah Heep) #Lockdown #Writing Tips
I wrote this story in just over an hour. See my previous blog about Repetition for the advice on the use of repetition in writing creatively. The rapidity of the… Read More »GCSE Creative Writing Bolton ( #Lockdown Writing Tips with Phoenix Writers) Repetition Continued!
There was a servant in that house, a man who, I understood, was usually with Steerforth, and had come into his service at the University, who was in appearance a… Read More »Creative Writing during #Lockdown #Phoenix Writers Horwich: Repetition in Writing. (David Copperfield Chapter 21) ‘Respectable’.
Ray Bradbury ‘Sound of Thunder’ Comprehension. 2) The dinosaur is described/evoked/presented in/through a language that communicates its physical immensity and athleticism as well as its predatory savagery and murderous cruelty.… Read More »GCSE English Language: AQA Sound of Thunder Possible Answers/Responses.
Mrs Bray was the proprietress of the Mulberry Garden…Although a widow for seven years, still wore black, which lent her bulk a certain mystery; sometimes it was hard to see… Read More »Creative Writing Tip ( If you are stuck!) GCSE, English Entrance Examinations (English Tuition Bolton)
I had been wondering why my aunts had quit leaving me voicemails, why my cousin’s texts had dried up. I had figured, with a hot scraped soreness, that it was… Read More »GCSE English Language Analysis: Tana French, The Wych Elm. (English Tuition Bolton, Manchester).
How do you start your story in an immediately effective way? Ask a question. Remember questions demand answers and that is what a story must provide for the reader-answers! 1)… Read More »GCSE Creative Writing: How to begin a story-ask a question!( English Tuition Bolton, Manchester) .
Neil Gaiman’s The Graveyard Book: How Questions and boost our understanding and help produce a meaningful analysis! How Nobody Came to the Graveyard There was a hand in the darkness,… Read More »Neil Gaiman’s The Graveyard Book: Questions to Boost PEEL Paragraphs and Analysis!
Very many congratulations to all my students this year! Last Thursday proved an exceptionally happy day and I was even in tears ( with joy) twice! The new specifications are… Read More »GCSE English Tuition Bolton: Why the English Language Examination should not be Underestimated! (TIP ONE)
Creative Writing: Find your protagonist’s sacred flaw. ‘Because things fit together, doesn’t mean they’re the truth.’ (William Shaw, A Song from Dead Lips). Compelling characters deceive themselves. They believe their… Read More »GCSE Creative Writing Tips: Find your character’s sacred flaw.
As we draw near to the English Language examinations here’s a wonderful insight into pace in storytelling. According to D B Pierre, writing is like running. It’s all about breathing.… Read More »GCSE English Writing Tips by D B Pierre Release the Bats!
Creative writing tips GCSE. What does your character want? And what do they need? Consider these questions in the light(and often darkness) of your title. All titles will give you… Read More »Creative Writing TIPS GCSE English Language Tuition Bolton Manchester
Refresh your writing through rewriting: A Simple Solution to the problem of ‘dull’ story writing. The problem. Many students tell me that their creative writing task lets them down. Perhaps… Read More »GCSE English Language: Creative Writing Tip! ( Bolton Tuition)
Emotional Excavation! ( Inspired and indebted to Donald Maass’ Emotional Craft of Fiction and Damon Suede’s Verbalize). The problem. How do you make readers experience your characters’ emotions? Feelings are… Read More »GCSE English Tuition Bolton: Creative Writing Task. (Why emotions drive your stories)
The Importance of point of view in any text: First Person viewpoint. Consider the following ideas concerning the use of the first-person point of view or perspective. Remember to ask… Read More »GCSE English Tuition Bolton: Ideas for Analysing First-Person Narration in English GCSE Examinations.
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.
Bring out the tall tales now that we told by the fire as the gaslight bubbled like a diver. Ghosts whooed like owls in the long nights when I dared… Read More »GCSE English Tuition Bolton : Best Christmas Writing Ever?
