One of my ambitions, once this pandemic is over, is to visit New York if I can. In the meantime, this look at the various cultures and dialects in New York is a reasonable substitute for actually being there.
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Writing prompts for kids
Do you have a child you’d like to encourage to write? This writing prompt website may be of interest.
Read MoreQuick look: Audio for Authors

This book provides compelling reasons for including audio as an integral part of the writer’s portfolio and tools of the trade, not merely an add-on or afterthought.
Read MoreShould writers aim for unmindfulness?
Perhaps a useful aim of writers is to lead the reader to put the book or article down, and disappear in a flight of imagination. After all, surely one measure of success is that what you’ve written led someone to think of something, or to make connections, that had not occurred to them before?
Read MoreQuick look: Short-form creative writing: a writer's guide and anthology
You may be very good at condensing a complex argument and proposals down to no more than six bullet points (as one of my line managers always demanded). This book makes it clear that there are more creative opportunities too.
Read MoreBooks unseen: My Name is Why
A few notes about a forthcoming memoir with a difference.
Read More5 Minute Tip: A free bulk renaming utility
Here's a great utility for Windows users. It enables you to rename loads of files at once, in various ways.
Read MoreQuick look: Publishing 101 by Jane Friedman

My thoughts on this book for would-be published authors, having read around a third of it up till now. Executive summary: so far so good.
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