Use the image above to write creatively about a character’s response to entering this unfamiliar setting for the first time. Simmo sat on a hard bench near the staircase, which was a wide thing with a strip of red carpet going up the centre. It looked like something a Disney princess would come floating down... Continue Reading →
Then, although it was still the end of the story, I put it at the beginning..., as if I needed to tell the end first in order to go on and tell the rest. Lynda Davis * Rachel looked like a candle flame, even in her sleep. Outside, a single tent away, I could hear Leah, my... Continue Reading →
Choose a character, persona or speaker from ONE prescribed text that you have studied in Module C. Express the thought processes of this character, persona or speaker by exploring a moment of tension in the text from an alternative point of view. * The mirror cracked from side to side. It had been a cheapie... Continue Reading →
Choose a character, persona or speaker from ONE prescribed text that you have studied in Module C. Express the thought processes of this character, persona or speaker by exploring a moment of tension in the text from an alternative pointof view. * Father turfed the council out and went to town on Hal. I suppose... Continue Reading →
Recall the figure of Adèle Ratignolle, the 'mother woman' from Chopin's novella The Awakening Choose a character, persona or speaker from ONE prescribed text that you have studied in Module C. Express the thought processes of this character, persona or speaker by exploring a moment of tension in the text from an alternative point of... Continue Reading →
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 →
The Craft of Writing 