Recall the figure of Jaggers the lawyer from Dickens' Great Expectations. Jaggers saved Molly, his housekeeper, from the gallows and installed her in his house, where she seemed entirely in thrall to him. Pip, Herbert, and Bentley Drummle (the lout who marries, then widows, Estella) witness Jaggers' strange relationship with Molly at dinner in Jaggers'... Continue Reading →
Guard your roving thoughts with a jealous care, for speech is but the dealer of thoughts, and every fool can plainly read in your words what is the hour of your thoughts. Alfred, Lord Tennyson Use this warning as a stimulus for a piece of persuasive, discursive or imaginative writing that expresses your perspective about... Continue Reading →
Some things are unknowable. A person’s secrets may be revealed by the things they leave behind, but what are they, those supposedly uncovered secrets? They are words, ideas… Dry and dead as dust. * At that point she always woke up. A wide patch of wet cold sweat on her chest and the sound, or... Continue Reading →
The Craft of Writing 