Events
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.
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.
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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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stop look listen, by Terry Freedman
Did you know that Raymond Queneau produced a single sonnet that could be read 100 trillion ways?
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stop look listen, by Terry Freedman
Lipograms, N+7, the snowball, and other techniques
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That’s the name of a one-day course I will be teaching at the City Lit on 13 June 2026. It’s already half full.
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London Book Fair , by Terry Freedman
The London Book Fair is nearly upon us, and there is now a very short time left to register. Here are some items you might find interesting.
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I was asked to teach a one-day course on flash fiction. Here’s what the students said about it.
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I haven’t finished preparing the new course yet, but here are a few things I’m considering…
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“You got a problem?” Self-portrait cartoon by Terry Freedman
As it happens, I did have a problem: one dead link and two dud links
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Can creative writing be automated (without using A|).
Read MoreHow many ways can you organise a library?
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Shoredticth 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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What is writing with constraints? In a nutshell, it means writing according to specific and tight rules. The “official” name for this is Oulipo, which is a French acronym for Ouvroir de littérature potentielle.
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This collection of work by Gay Talese is utterly brilliant, and contains items that haven’t seen the light of day in a long time.
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The City LIt, where I teach a creative writing course, a course for would-be bloggers and a course on the Oulipo is holding another Late Lines event.
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More news about the LBF’s programme this year. This post is about a seminar for self-publishers.
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