Reviews
For many years I’ve liked American nonfiction writing in periodicals such as Harpers, The Atlantic and The New Yorker, and it’s been interesting (for me at any rate) to learn that I also enjoy American fiction.
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Film, by Dean Shareski Some rights reserved
Yesterday I spent a very interesting three hours on a course called A Taste of Film.
Read MoreIt’s a sad fact of life that the most entertaining reviews are the ones that are highly critical of the thing being reviewed.
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This is a book about strategy and meeting objectives rather than a how-to-write guide.
Read MoreWhen your word count is restricted, you have to make every word count.
Read MoreI always try to follow my intuition. Thus it was that, with deadlines pressing on me, and pressure from all sides, I decided to ignore my intellectual protestations and listen to my inner voice.
Read MoreThis is quite unlike any other graphic novel I’ve read, and here are the reasons.
Read More… was a review of a book called The Well-Fed Writer. That was in 2010, and the book seems to be still available. Do I still agree with it’s suggestions?
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Reviewer's desk, by Terry Freedman
My views on what constitutes a book on writing are fairly catholic. Indeed, it would me more accurate to denote the books I review as books for writers, rather than books on writing. The latter tend to have titles like “How to write fiction”, or “How to write magazine articles”.
Read MoreThe least sensible thing one can do in circumstance like this is to read stuff which has absolutely no bearing on any it.
Read MoreThe book works in so many ways that it’s hard to know where to start.
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I enjoyed the course, but would have preferred it to have been longer.
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As for non-students whose memories of Eng Lit conjure up trying to make sense of Shakespeare, you may discover that “A Little History of Literature” will help you to erase such memories!
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Good Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) practice may decree that the ideal blog post length is between 1760 and 2400 words, but I prefer to write for people rather than an algorithm.
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Anyone interested in the craft of writing should read this book. It’s not a primer, or dictionary, or anything of that nature. But it does exactly what it says on the tin.
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A selection of my reference books — Terry Freedman
This one-off session from the City Lit looked like an exciting course to try. It ticked several boxes: no long-term commitment, and brimming with ideas.
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Cameraman, by Terry Freedman
If you write a play or a film script, presumably you have a mental picture of how it will look on screen or stage.
Read MoreWhen you start to read a new book, what’s your routine? My routines differ according to whether the book is fiction or non-fiction, and whether I’ve been sent it to review or not.
Read MoreRoy Peter Clark describes and analyses fifty five strategies for writers.
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