This is a piece describing being burgled, in about 500 words. I wasn’t a fan of this exercise; I’m quite “macro” in my view of the universe, whereas this piece was narrowing my focus onto the “micro” aspects of an event. However, this is something that I have noticed of late; my viewpoint. I read […]
This assignment shows a son trying to tactfully broach the subject about his mother moving into a home, with a word count of 250. The old women is loosely based upon my own grandmother, specifically the twiddling of the thumbs and the “can’t wait for me to die” line. She would twiddle her thumbs when […]
This exercise shows two characters in a heated disagreement with a word count of 250 words maximum. This was a first idea for the assignment; the one I submitted was more normal (about a taxi driver and a passenger arguing over a fare). Credit to my tutor – I think he knows that I pulled […]
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