Sale, by Terry Freedman
My courses running in June and July at the City Lit can now be applied for using a 15% discount code. In fact, you can use the discount code on courses to the value of between £99 and £500 running in June, July and August.
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I wrote this 12 years ago. The program referred to still appears to work. It just seems old-fashioned and has several annoying pop-ups and other distractions.
Read MoreI asked Claude.AI to convert all of my courses information to a single page zine-style information bulletin. Tjhis is what it came up with.
Read MoreGeorges Perec famously wrote a novel without using the letter ‘e’. A cool literary trick, but what did it really signify?
Read MoreWhen I decided that I would like to create a flyer for my forthcoming creative writing courses, and that I would like it to have the look of a zine, it made sense to me to enlist the services of artificial intelligence..
Read MoreIn a couple of weeks’ time I shall be teaching a course called Creative Writing Using Constraints, at the City Lit in London. I felt that the blurb on the City Lit’s website was a bit mundane. So I got AI to write a better one.
Read MoreSome years ago I stopped accepting work from editors who liked everything about my work apart from paying me.
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Question mark, by Terry Freedman
Is it first, second etc, or firstly, secondly etc?
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Photo by Terry Freedman
Just in case I might get too complacent, a malignant Fate decreed that an article I’ve spent hours on has been rejected — by the person who commissioned it.
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Shoreditch in black and white, by Terry Freedman
The standard advice for writers who are feeling uninspired or blocked is to allow your mind to wander where it will or to just start writing aimlessly to see what happens. Therefore to suggest the opposite approach, that of imposing some constraints on your thinking, seems completely counterintuitive.
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As the title suggests, it’s about Basil Boothroyd’s (mis) adventures as a public speaker. In an anecdote I found particularly amusing …
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Notebook, by Terry Freedman
I often find that working on paper is better than working on a computer. For the initial outline anyway.
There are several reasons why working on – and with – paper is beneficial.
Read MoreThis wide-ranging book takes in probability, fractals, astronomy, Babbage, Lovelace, and a host of other areas and people.
Read MoreYou settle down to read, and the subject of this particular vignette could be you: a teacher, a student, a mother, a brother.
Read MoreWeimar, the birthplace of the optimistic but short-lived republic of the same name, a place called “home” by Goethe, Liszt and Nietzsche and a mere eight kilometres from Buchenwald.
Read MoreNo book about the craft of writing seems complete without a stern chapter on the importance of eschewing adverbs and adjectives - but what to put in their place?
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Think outside the box, by Terry Freedman
When it comes to communication, being restricted is definitely better, ie more conducive to effectiveness, than having no limits at all.
Read MoreConsider this a sort of masterclass if you like. I was commissioned to write a blog post for the City Lit Adult Ed Institute in London…
Read MoreWhen teaching a course online at an adult education institute I would say that proficiency in using the technology to teach a lesson online is an obvious prerequisite of success. In addition, an understanding of good practice in teaching adults is also essential.
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Photo by Terry Freedman
This is an updated version of an updated version of an article I originally published on this very website in 2015. In my experience, it absolutely applies to artists, teachers and other creatives as well as writers or consultants.
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