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Bookcase, by Terry Freedman
I love second-hand bookshops. Whenever I go on holiday, one of the first things I do is go to the nearest Tourism Information outlet and get a list of the local used bookshops.
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Photo by Markus Winkler on Unsplash
My public writing tends to be mostly about education technology, and the craft of nonfiction writing. My interests are more varied than that brief description would suggest, but to avoid muddying the waters I either attempt to skew an article so that it fits into one of those categories, or not publish it at all. But that has now changed….
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The London Book Fair, 2016. Photo by Terry Freedman
The London Book Fair is back this year, and as usual there's a lot on that writers will find useful. The show this year is semi-hybrid….
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Blogger, by Terry Freedman
To blog or not to blog? That is the question. Here’;s a SWOT analysis to help you decide.
Read MoreIt's always difficult to get the balance right between hard sell and soft sell. Joe Coleman's website allows you to choose your own level of (dis)comfort!
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Photo by Terry Freedman
As a frequenter of Golders Green in years gone by I sometimes had occasion to use the Gents in the station. My friends and I, with the silliness of youth, always used to chortle at a sign there.
Read MoreThe idea is that if an article is ripped off, it’s much easier to prove that it was originally published by you if your face is embedded in it.
Read MoreI often wonder if the most arduous part of the work of the people who write this sort of tripe is to ensure they don’t use the same words more than once for the same editor.
Read MoreAs far as I know, I’ve never been cancelled. I’ve been attacked online, had my reputation smeared, but not actually cancelled.
Read MoreThe following is a list of 29 ways in which you might be able to help the Ukrainian situation. My aim was to collate a list of ways that ordinary people could contribute, even if only in a small way.
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Books by Terry Freedman
Why are there two World Book Days?
Read MoreI am experiencing domain issues.
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Image from John Hain on Pixabay
It seems to me that for satire to work it has to walk a fine line between being so close to reality that it’s not funny, and so far-fetched that it’s not credible.
Read MoreComing up in Terry Freedman’s Books Bulletin…
Read MoreWhat is the 'correct' style for a blog post? Indeed, is there a correct style?
Read MoreI attended an authors’ conference a few years ago, and I have never been in a room with so many egos.
Read MoreWe writers have a duty to do what we can to preserve the dignity of the language in which we work.
Read MoreI would love to be able to write blog posts or conduct my social media affairs in such a way that I became an overnight sensation, as verified by an astronomical rise in my bank balance. But…
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If you think it, write it. Photo = Reflections, by Elaine Freedman
Dr Johnson said that nobody but a blockhead ever wrote for anything except money. I have a great deal of sympathy with this view, but I don’t altogether agree with it.
Read MoreWhat do good writers have that bad writers don't?
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