Pen Pals for Creativity. Sometimes a name, your name can get in the way of creativity. Sometimes your very sense of self, your identity, your history, your expectations for… Read More »Creative Writing Tuition Bolton: GCSE English Tuition Bolton Manchester Bury
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
Descriptive Writing: GCSE English. Here are several famous examples of descriptive writing. Can you identify how they create a sense of place, atmosphere and time? Pick up any techniques which… Read More »GCSE English :Descriptive Writing Examples. ( Bolton English Tuition)
June 21 1918. ”What is the matter with to-day? It is thin, white, as lace curtains are white, full of ugly noises (e.g. people opening the drawers of a cheap… Read More »GCSE English Journal Writing: Bolton Manchester English Tuition
The most racking pangs succeeded: a grinding in the bones, deadly nausea, and a horror of the spirit that cannot be exceeded at the hour of birth or death.… Read More »DR Jekyll and MR Hyde Analysis of Jekyll’s Full Statement of the Case: GCSE English Literature AQA
A successful piece of writing depends upon the relationship between different elements. When you examine how these elements work together(or don’t in some cases) then you can formulate a convincing… Read More »GCSE English : How to analyse ANY written text. A few thoughts! ( Tuition Bolton Manchester)
”Moving a guy as big as Keever wasn’t easy. It was like trying to wrestle a king-size mattress off a waterbed. So they buried him close to the house. Which… Read More »English Tuition Bolton Manchester: Lee Child’s Model Opening to ‘Make Me’.
Saki unnervingly captures the eager boastfulness of a proud parent below. Indeed the energy devoted to parent-pride seems practically pathological, yet curiously familiar too. However Saki at his best, is… Read More »Creative Writing Tuition Bolton Manchester: Saki’s Clovis on Parental Responsibilities- Artful Irony!
( I started this last summer drinking coffee and watching an ambitious spider. I know in the back of my head lurks Mansfield’s brilliant, yet miserable late story‘ The Fly’. This… Read More »Creative Writing Bolton Manchester GCSE English tuition : ”Cobwebs”.
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.
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?
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!
“Stop!” cried the old man. Douglas pulled up and turned. Mr. Sanderson leaned forward. “How do they feel?” The boy looked down at his feet deep in the rivers,… Read More »English Tuition Bolton Manchester Bury: Ray Bradbury’s Summer of Love THREE!
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!
”If a writer of prose knows enough of what he is writing about he may omit things that he knows and the reader, if the writer is writing truly enough,… Read More »GCSE English Tuition: How to create Character and Setting with The Daughters of the Vicar by D H Lawrence. TWO!
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.
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!
For, unmistakably, the trees were shouting in the dark. These weresounds, too, like the flapping of great sails, a thousand at a time, andsometimes reports that resembled more than anything… Read More »English Tuition Bolton Manchester: Algeron Blackwood’s The Man whom the trees loved .
Robert Browning’s Dramatic Monologues are very much in evidence this teaching year and I have also enjoyed the excellent Grantchester on ITV recently. The combination of the latter’s hero ‘Sidney’… Read More »English Tuition Bolton Manchester Creative Writing: Sidney and the door.
They told the world that they walked besides small lakes because they liked to observe their reflections. This could have been their public lie, yet neither carried a mirror in… Read More »English Tuition Manchester Bolton: Creative Writing ‘Taking the air.’
When my love swears that she is made of truth I do believe her, though I know she lies, Therefore I lie with… Read More »Creative Writing Bolton Manchester: Dark School- an opening!(Phoenix Writers)
(This is an excellent prompt exercise courtesy of York University used on one of their very stimulating online Creative Writing Courses. It encourages us to be spontaneous and helps develop… Read More »English Tuition Bolton Manchester: Creative Writing- Prompt Exercise!
“Well, I read the book you left last time.” “Oh, what do you think of it?” They were off and all was as usual. But was it? Weren’t… Read More »GCSE/GCE Creative Writing Tuition Manchester Bolton: Inner conflict in Katherine Mansfield’s Psychology Story
Oh, wasn’t there anywhere where she could hide and keep herself to herself and stay as long as she liked, not disturbing anybody, and nobody worrying her? Wasn’t there… Read More »Katherine Mansfield Fragment: Inspired by her story The Life of Ma Parker.
You may not know this but onions do have a heart. In fact they know far more than we give them credit for as this story will show. Tony Cliff… Read More »English Creative Writing Bolton, Manchester, Bury: The onion.
This is another old piece of writing. I enjoyed creating George because his idealism and awkwardness seemed very human and tinged with sadness. Demeter seemed a character I never quite… Read More »GCSE English Tuition Bolton and Manchester: A Farewell and a Meeting
Demeter was walking in her favourite wood. She had left school for the dentist and then found no reason in her form diary to return that day. All the golden… Read More »GCSE/GCE English Tuition Bolton, Manchester and Bury: Demeter walks out.
