Frankie Lewis Creative Writing Tutor

The Universe Is Watching Us – Our Unimaginable Fate…… The Universe Is Watching Us – Our Unimaginable Fate……

I think the deepest common fear around AI is the fear of boredom…

I’m so grateful I got to write essays before AI

AKA ‘How to get an ok grade in an English Lit BA’

(improv is everything and everything is improv)

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📯💰BEAUTIFUL PROJECT TO SUPPORT 💰📯

So excited for this Meg Igarashi! ❤️🌸

“Through this film, we want to explore Aya’s attempt at navigating her Japanese and British identities by showing different periods of her life. When she is younger, she feels very connected to her Japanese heritage, but as she gets older, she distances herself away from her roots. As we see the changes she undergoes at each stage of her life, we reflect with Aya on the things that affect who we become and how others’ perceptions of us impact how we see ourselves.”

“With food being an integral part of culture, it will play a key role in I Never Learned I Love You. Through food, we will see this “rift” that Aya experiences between her two cultures. In many Asian countries such as Japan, it is uncommon for people to say or hear the words “I love you”. However, to ask somebody if they’ve eaten or offer them food, is an expression of respect and love.”

https://youtu.be/qoCZjqWBEWY?si=ASi9VHxa5UpryJFJ
^Jibunrashiku

https://youtu.be/BSsnIQDTqLg?si=TPij1ui1S7a6UJm4
^KID HEART trailer

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I Never Learned I Love You | Greenlit I Never Learned I Love You The film follows Aya, a young British-Japanese woman, learning to navigate her life and relationships as an adult. When Will, her first serious boyfriend suddenly tells her he loves her, she does not know how to respond. This awkward moment leads Aya to reflect on her life...

Social skills improving through celebration of safely grounded madness (AKA ‘being Autistic out loud’, AKA ‘unmasking’):

I pointed at a passing woman’s face in the hospital waiting area reception (baseline bad vibes, definitely improved by Yang-ass Spirit shouts as proven last night in the A&E when a bunch of us rode our pain madness waves and mutual derision into a very cheerful and structurally complete sitcom episode) and said, “I’ve seen you before.”

I was totally confident I had.
It became clear this was not true.
I did not double down, but waved at the sky brain, apologised and enjoyed a shared giggle sesh with a character who assumes if someone recognises her it must be from ‘out clubbing’ which for me is wildly unlikely to be the case.

Afterwards, an overworked nurse on the phone to someone synchronistically (with that weird ‘it just hits that way’ sensation of direct psychic communication) says, celebratorily, (obviously experiencing a Leadership win),
“Let’s be brave, Giuseppe!”

After putting the phone down, she declared to the reception team, with satisfied finality, “let’s be brave!”

And now I want a tattoo or a t-shirt that says, LETS BE BRAVE GIUSEPPE

The end x
Love x

Update for anyone who was enjoying Writing Activities for Parents of Cool Kids 💖

Love you ❤️☮️x

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Join me LIVE tomorrow in Writing Activities for Parents of Cool Kids

We'll be talking about the role of
✋🏻✨D I S C O V E R Y✨ 🤚🏻
in our journey towards higher grades in English (and everything).

The aim: break the grading system by getting everyone 9s.

The session is appropriate for students and parents.

See you in there! 🌸

p.s. if you know you'd like to chat about you child's goals with me privately, here is my Calendly link: https://calendly.com/tinkerandplay/30min

Why does Creative Writing improve grades overall?

Before unlocking my creative expression, I had ‘starting anxiety’.

I had no idea how to structure a response to an exam question- I was the kid that sat down, stared at the question and asked, “Sir, what should I write first?”

(My students only ask this once.)

My main focus with my students has honestly never been grades. I don’t really care. I know that good grades come as a result of habitual patterns of enthusiastic and thorough application and integration of practices.

What?
Nothing.

What I’m saying is: it was a real surprise when my students’ parents came back all at once with a collection of testimonials that widely reflected an *overall improvement*.

Why was this a thing?

I thought about it, with each of the students who had shown this improvement.

Together, we had worked on patterns of comprehension, yes, but, more importantly,

expression.

We had worked through anxieties about ‘finding the right word’; about ‘I don’t know what this means’; about committing to a structure and following it through. We had learned how to identify the effect you want to have on the reader, and then how to create the effect.

We had burst through hesitation around sharing work- sharing thoughts; opinions; clear conclusions.

If you’re answering a written Science exam question and you flop between scenarios without guiding your examiner’s understanding, you’re likely to miss marks.

If you’re evaluating the effect of the railway on the Industrial Revolution but your argument has no driving emotional undertow then you’re gonna bore the examiner. Those velvet ropes between you and the top marks are gonna stay hooked to the shiny gold post because you haven’t shown flair. You haven’t shown fluency. You haven’t shown clear understanding. You might have it! But you haven’t shown it. (Equally, you can show it without really having it…)

In conclusion,

Learning how to tell stories well is the foundation of all communication. Communication is what achieves grades.

Do you know that we say ‘grade’ for the clarity of a diamond?

That’s what I’m talking about.

The End.

Oh! Join my group! https://www.facebook.com/groups/tinker.n.play

Also,
I have 10 free ‘Success Sessions’ available through April, for parents to talk through their young person’s stuff with me.
Here is the link to book that- be quick! When they’re gone, they’re gone. https://calendly.com/tinkerandplay/30min

All the best 🌸

Creative Writing for English Fluency SUCCESS SESSION - Frankie Lewis Once you book in, please follow the prompts on the next page for additional steps.This is for parents of pre-exam students in the UK or US school systems who want to own their work, guide their readers and control their grades.This session is FREE.

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To find out more about autistic burnout: psychcentral.com/autism/autistic-burnout
Defining Autistic Burnout’ – Dr Dora M. Raymaker PhD
Studentlife.lincoln.ac.uk/2021/05/18/the-difference-between-autistic-burnout-and-depression
‘An autistic burnout’ - The Autistic Advocate

Change.org petition to recognise autistic burnout
https://rb.gy/jynnqu

All our best and love
Ross Fraser and Jeni Curtis
Mylifeautistic

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