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 )
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
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’.
The writer Ann Caldwell delivered an excellent session last week about dealing with time in narratives. She gave us several exercises and prompts. I tried ‘ I thought I heard a… Read More »Creative Writing Bolton Manchester: Phoenix Writers Horwich with Ann Caldwell
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…’
( Last week at Phoenix Writers Horwich Bolton, , we selected postcards of paintings to ‘enter’ and Barbara’s range included the painting above. We were not allowed to turn… Read More »Creative writing tuition Bolton Manchester : Using paintings. (The Ascension)
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.
Phoenix Writers – a short introduction The Phoenix Writers’ Group has been running since Easter 2008 in its current home at the Horwich Resource Centre on Beaumont Road. Before that,… Read More »Join Phoenix Writers in Horwich, Bolton, Greater Manchester!
