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…
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,…
Writing 101: I’m afraid I’ve cheated already
I’ve signed up for this Blogging University Writing 101 thing. I’m not quite sure why, if I’m honest, because my last attempt at creative writing fell at the first hurdle and I only completed Week 1 of a MOOC before I flopped out and abandoned the course. Creative writing isn’t my thing. I think I’m…
