As always the London Book Fair programme looks great, and the biggest problem you will face, I think, is deciding which talks to attend in the seminar programme. Bonus: this year the Fair is free to attend.
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There’s an opportunity to enter samples of your writing for a freelance writing award.
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UPDATED With a correction! Why are ebooks priced at almost the same level as printed books? (I’ve actually seen a Kindle book priced higher than the print version.)
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In the process of identifying which books to send off to a new home, I’ve discovered some books I’d forgotten about and now look forward to reading (again).
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Free books for writers — but hurry.
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There’s a good chance that I’ve led a sheltered life, have very low standards, or both, but in my opinion the degree to which someone suffers from imposter syndrome is inversely related to how good they really are.
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If you're going to blog, please don't disrespect your reader by publishing non-proofed copy, verbose (aka pompous) writing, gratuitous swearing, incorrect words and other horrors that could easily be avoided.
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Blogging is not necessarily easy. Even if writing itself is not a problem, there are several other factors that need to be taken into account.
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When Sugar Pi De Santo sang “Use what you got”, I’m fairly certain that she wasn’t referring to writing and getting articles published. However, the sentiment expressed, especially in the first verse, can be applied more generally.
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Do you read people’s writings about covid? I don’t, if I can help it.
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I’m hoping to get things back to normal soon, that is, publishing articles several times a week.
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A girl I taught was highly intelligent, very helpful and had a great sense of humour. Unfortunately, though, whenever she disagreed with somebody she immediately flew into a temper, insulted them and told them to go forth and multiply — though rather more crudely than that. I imagine she has a huge following on Twitter these days, as that seems to be the main way of “communicating” for a lot of people.
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We don’t say, “Nice factory you’ve built up there, but it’s unfair that you get to keep it for more than a few years, and even if you do, you can’t pass it on in your will.” Who would bother investing their own time and money in the enterprise if they thought that would be the outcome?
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Just in case you were thinking that there must be some areas of English Literature that are safe from being banned, burned, discontinued…
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Apparently there are proposals to pass a law in the USA that would require freelance writers to pass the so-called ABC test.
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Here is a list of writing competitions.
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In the first session of a course called the Seven Ages of Poetry, the tutor, Julian Birkett, divided the class into breakout rooms and asked us to translate a translation of one of the verses.
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The Society of Authors has published an updated statement about Brexit.
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Here are two useful articles about what the Brexit deal might mean for writers.
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If you don’t already have a collection of articles that you can (legally) republish or rework, then today is as good a time as any to start.
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