The task for Day 12 was to write a post with its roots in a real-world conversation. I qualified as a teacher of English in 2000 and eight years later, I left the teaching profession for good. I had taught in three different countries and during that time added a TEFL and an MA to…
Tag: Writing 101
Writing 101: A Day Out in Winchester
Day 8 of Writing 101: ‘go to a public location and make a detailed report of what you see’. I’m already playing fast and loose with this Writing 101 project, interpreting the prompts very freely indeed, and now I’m not even doing the days in the right order. But I imagine the point of the…
Book review: Mary McCarthy’s ‘The Group’
Originally posted on Aunty Muriel's Blog:
(Beware: *spoilers*) I buy my books and most of my clothes from charity shops these days, and I picked up Mary McCarthy’s The Group from the Oxfam bookshop in Reading. It came complete with a handwritten letter, which I read with absolutely no compunction whatsoever and then used…
Writing 101: All those hours I’ll never get back
Day 4 of Writing 101 and we’re supposed to write about a loss. I’m going to write about the many, many hours I have devoted to playing daft games on my iPhone: hours of my life that I won’t get back. To be honest, I’ve had a bit of a rough time this year. My…
Writing 101: My Sleep-Out in the Wop Wops, or The Spiders Have Grown Territorial
If I were to be asked where I would go if I could travel anywhere I wanted to right now, the answer would be that I’d like to go to a place that doesn’t exist at the moment: it’s quite simply a place that I could call ‘my own home’. I’ve led a wasteful, rubbish,…
