Reviews
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With children as the target audience, this book is a fair-paced romp through the history of paintings from cave paintings to the present day. All that in less than 100 pages!
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Listening to a podcast, by Terry Freedman
Recently, I’ve been writing about my experiences of listening to documents on the Kindle Fire. The headphones I’ve been using for this purpose is the Lindy BNX-60 pair. Here’s what I think of them.
Read MoreThe Kindle Fire has a text-to-speech facility. I’ve been using it to listen to a book in the form of a pdf document. Here’s my evaluation of it.
Read MoreRead about a great proofreading tool.
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Dreyer’s English: click the pic to be taken to the book on Amazon (affiliate link).
A no-nonsense style guide that manages to be both humorous and readable too.
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Writing: making your mark, screenshot by Terry Freedman
If you’re in London, you might be interested in this exhibition on the history of writing, at the British Library. Here are my views on it.
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What’s a book about epilepsy doing on a writing-related website? Read on and find out.
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Why they can’t write. Click the pic to be taken to Amazon UK (This is an Amazon affiliate link)
Why is students’ writing so awful, generally speaking, that employers complain about it? John Warner has some interesting ideas about why this might be the case.
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Collins Complete Writing Guide
Should this book be in the reference section of your bookshelf, or is too lighthearted? Here’s my verdict.
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My writing desk, by Terry Freedman
Here’s my evaluation of WordCounter which, erm, counts words — plus a whole bunch of other stuff.
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Books, by Terry Freedman
I’ve added another kind of book review to my previous list of five.
Read MoreI recently did a creative writing course. Here are my reflections on it.
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Frazzled, by Terry Freedman
Why has doing a course on American fiction been so enjoyable, and useful to me as a non-fiction writer?
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Girl in black leather jacket. Photo from Pexels. Licence: CC0
How can you remember all those ideas you have or snippets of conversation you hear while out and about? These ten note-taking approaches should help.
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How to make money as a freelance writer
Freelance writers’ earnings tend to be very low for most people. However, this book provides suggestions on how to make decent money in this field.
Read MoreWhat’s a book of paintings got to do with the writing process?
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Tom Watson and Giles Watling, MPs, speaking at the Awards. Photo by Terry Freedman
Congratulations to all the shortlisted authors and their books! There were some great-looking books on display. Here is some information about the winning entry, and a couple of the others.
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So you think you've read some atrocious writing in your life? Well, you ain't seen nothing yet.
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How should you pitch a publisher with your book proposal? Or, to look at this another way, how should you not do so? This book answers that question.
Read MoreA well-written and, frankly, frightening book about the benefits we get from sleep. frightening? Yes, because of the costs we pay when we skimp on (good quality) sleep.
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