Creative Writing piece for university, 2007. I don’t remember much after getting off the plane, my memory seems to start walking around Heathrow, which was both exciting and scary at the same time. My Uncle Dave had come to pick us up, a man I remembered vaguely, and the first official thing I can remember [...]
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Written in 2006 for a writing class, a short biography of my favourite author. Roald Dahl became my favourite author as a child as I very quickly became affiliated with his varying works. I had read his stories in school and my parents had bought me some of his classics to read at home. Dahl [...]
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A creative writing technique – get someone to pick 10 items (or pick them yourself) and write a story about them. The example below is about a person, written in class circa 2005. 1. A lava lamp 2. An abstract painting 3. A pipe 4. A digital camera 5. A book about Pandas 6. [...]
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Writing Assignment for Writing for Film and Media university module, 2005 Mike is staring at Julian. Julian is wearing a coat, the coat. Mike: What are you doing with my coat? Julian: Wearing it. Mike: Why? Julian: Because I want to. Mike: Well it’s mine, [...]
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Written in May 2005 for a Creative Writing class. Int. council house. We are in a small, cosy lounge with the curtains drawn. A man in his late sixties/early seventies is sitting in an armchair, dressed warmly, deep in thought. FRED: Miserable weather again today. I was going to go out to the corner [...]
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Written in 2004 for poetry class. We had to write a poem about a chair, I decided to think like a chair. As you do. How strange it is To be sat upon Bearing the load Of a stranger’s mass Standing on four legs Never to sit yourself The irony lost With a [...]
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A story I wrote around 2005 based on a moral theme. Seamus poked at the peas that had escaped from his plate. The peas had tasted better than the burnt toad in the hole they’d accompanied. Lucky bastards, he thought. Free and easy to explore the table. ‘’Do you want a Choc Ice Seamus?’’ He [...]
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Written in 2004 as part of my Poetry class, and later published in ‘Skald’ magazine. What mysteries lie in pockets, A dark, deep-holed surprise? Maybe you’ll find rockets What mysteries lie in pockets? Planets, pins, plug sockets; Or toffees, tins and ties What mysteries lie in pockets, A dark, deep holed surprise?
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