What we might call “natural” word of mouth is one thing — it has served me very well — but can we provide a helping hand?
Read MoreReview: Hard Rain Falling
This is a very compelling book to read, but to describe it as noir fiction is almost an understatement.
Read MoreRandom writerly aphorisms
Fifty aphorisms for writers.
Read MoreThe loneliness of the blogging teacher
in News & views
A post I wrote while suffering from heat exhaustion.
Read MoreQuick look: Howl: Selected Poems by Allen Ginsberg
These poems benefit from being read aloud, even if only to yourself.
Read MoreThe Professional Writer: Negotiating Revisited
Why is negotiating essential for the professional writer?
Read MoreReview: The Wisdom of Charlotte Brontë: Thoughts Gathered from Her Novels -- two reviews in one!
Below you will find two versions of a book review. The first is the one I submitted to the editor of Teach Secondary magazine, while the second is the version he actually published.
Read MoreReview: The shortest history of AI -- two reviews in one!
Below you will find two versions of a book review. The first is the one I submitted to the editor of Teach Secondary magazine, while the second is the version he actually published.
Read MoreReview: Ways of Telling -- three reviews in one!
Three reviews of the same book: a straight version, an outlandish version and the published version.
Read MoreReview: Magic and Mechanics -- two reviews in one!
After each story there is an interview with its author.
Read MoreOK I give up. Several reviews to come -- but not today!
in News & views
I have just four book reviews published in Teach Secondary magazine. Details inside.
Read MorePaul Braffort's Imaginary libraries
in Creative Writing, Oulipo, Events
How many ways can you organise a library?
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Sale, by Terry Freedman
15% off courses at the City Lit
in Creative Writing, Oulipo, Events
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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How to create a magazine cover -- old-fashioned but still OK!
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 MoreWrite like you mean it -- courses flyer
I 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 MoreThe deeper meaning of A Void
Georges Perec famously wrote a novel without using the letter ‘e’. A cool literary trick, but what did it really signify?
Read MoreCreative writing courses coming up
When 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 MoreMea Culpa: I used AI to help me write something -- but it's not as bad as that sounds
In 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 MoreVote with your feet -- aka life's too short
Some 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
First or firstly? A reminder
in Handy hints
Is it first, second etc, or firstly, secondly etc?
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