Creative writing Enduring love

Has anyone got any advice for writing a creative writing piece (750 words) based on Enduring Love? Thanks x

Is this a re creative piece as part of the coursework? If so, what extract are you choosing?

Yes, this is for the coursework I'm choosing the opening chapter and the balloon incident. Any help would be appreciated what about you?

I can help then! We actually studied this extract in our class (but I haven't read the whole novel). Our teacher advised us to take on the persona of one of the other character's approach to the 'balloon incident' - for example, one of the farm labourers, John Logan, Jed Parry, Clarissa or the granddad or grandson in the balloon.

She also told us that important elements in mimicking McEwan's style would include:


Another key thing to remember if you do decide to take on a role is keeping it authentic. For example, if you use a farm labourer, he's probably going to be using a lot of colloquial language, or if you pick the doctor John Logan, he'll probably use medical jargon.

I really wanted to do re-creative, considering I also do creative writing a-level, but unfortunately it was near impossible. I was the only one in our class who wanted to do it, and she had to focus her coursework lecturing on the majority obviously. I found it was easier just to use the classwork and do an essay instead of having to go after school and learn how to structure a re-creative etc. My text is A Streetcar Named Desire

Hope this helped!