Recent content by horace walpole

Individual and society Pride and Prejudice-BBC and Austen North and South-Gaskell Brownings poetry Scarlet letter-hawthorne: related text Tennysons poetry: related texts

it is true thatour language has derived from many other, and if you go back far enough you will probably learn that [speculation] humans once all spoke with the same grunting, and snorting vocabulary. When you take this and examine a minority of the human race, you will find that most teenage...

kindred spirit Style, its more or less what you make of it. Each individual author has their own style, commonly inspired by the authors which they read, thus the circle will continue. My style is strange, because I probably read too widely and it has become a mixture, or rather a salad of...

manipulation If your still wondering how you can make it fit, you could always wwrite form the author of the newpaper articles perspective. For example, we'll just call him jo. So jo is given this assignment of composing newspaper articles in his town, the story could be about him, and...

lessons learnt I screwed my prelim. minor because I didn't keep a journal, etc.... But its cool, I diodn't have any ideas until the other day when I read writers showcase 2002. But being at a private school I think, well know that teachers push you over the edge with work, bla, bla, bla...

Research I understand your problem, I suffered working with a huge story and a word limit of 8000 in my ext 1 minor. What I did is talked to my teacher about the idea and word limits. I think for you it might be a good idea to write a series of short stories, by short I mean 1000-1500 words...

Something different I wanted to do something completely different to anyone I knew, so I decide to do use the gothic genre. We've only just started the course at school, 'only' meaning we've been doing it for about a month. I really didn't have a clue what I was going to write until I...