Quick looks
This book arrived recently, and I’m very much enjoying reading it. It’s a kind of guided tour or survey of the types of fiction that have appeared in the last fifty years (mainly).
Read MoreBerkman has written an interesting and very academic examination of the links between maths and literature.
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This is a book about strategy and meeting objectives rather than a how-to-write guide.
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This book is aimed at the small business person who has more energy than money to spend on publicity. That sounds like a description of most writers!
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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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Do you have a child you’d like to encourage to write? This writing prompt website may be of interest.
Read MoreThis 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.
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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?
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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.
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A few notes about a forthcoming memoir with a difference.
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Here's a great utility for Windows users. It enables you to rename loads of files at once, in various ways.
Read MoreMy 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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