Editor & main contributor: Terry Freedman. Published in the UK. ISSN 1474-6816
The purpose of this website is to enable me to share ideas about writing, including reviews of books and even films that may have a bearing on the craft of writing. My credentials, in case you’re wondering, are that I’ve been having articles and books published since 1990.
The style is plain and simple, and all the more powerful for that, and I like the sense of foreboding.
Context is given regarding the manner in which the interviews were conducted, and there is a great deal of nuance regarding the concept of “bystanders” vs “perpetrators”.
How can you start writing a book if you don’t know where to start?
As it happens, I did have a problem: one dead link and two dud links
Did you know that Rebecca Holden and I write a letter on Substack to each other on Wednesdays? Well, we do, and this is the latest one from me to her. Read on for a jolly good chortle.
I’ve been reading Phillipa K. Chong’s “Inside the Critics’ Circle”, in which she attempts to discover the process by which books get reviewed. It’s a very interesting read. I haven’t finished it yet, so am not in a position to review it as such, but I was struck by the extract cited here.
Although I’ve been writing for donkeys’ years, I’ve never written anything for radio.
Every time I teach my Writing for Blogs course, it transpires that some most of the people on the course do not read any blogs.
I first had the idea for a writing machine many years ago, while watching an episode of the Avengers.
If you have the occasional desktop publishing to do, or if you only require a sort of limited desktop publisher or simply don’t have the time to learn a whole new program, Word will do fine.
The structure of this book is very interesting.
The style is plain and simple, and all the more powerful for that.
Quite by chance I’ve been reading about bureaucracy recently — such as in customer (dis)service — and it reminded me of North Thames Gas’s attempts to drive me mad. That was many years ago and North Thames Gas doesn’t even exist any more, but even now the mere mention of a gas company starts my nervous twitch going.
Why you should do some public speaking.