Since I drew this cartoon, the names of the authors have changed, but the issue remains the same!
These are some of the books I’ve started this year, and which I’m determined to finish this year. Well, maybe I’ll settle for reading a bit more of them at least.
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What are preverbs, and how might they be useful to a writer?
Read MoreArranged in reverse chronological order, this book will help you find great examples of innovative approaches to writing poems, dating back to the 1840s. But what exactly is a prose poem?
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Merry Xmas, by Terry Freedman
One of my traditions at this time of year is to set some kind of puzzle. This year is no exception.
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Pencil, by Terry Freedman
At the risk of stating the obvious or, worse, being tautological, I think the mark of a professional writer is that he or she behaves professionally. What might professional behaviour look like?
Read MoreWhat can be more infuriating to a potential purchaser of a non-fiction book than chapter headings which give no clue as to their contents?
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On This Day, by Terry Freedman
On 22 December 2015 I published a review of Help! For Writers, by Roy Peter Clark. I liked the book back then. Do I still like it now?
Read MoreI waited petrified among people for whom “social distancing” means not quite touching you, and who wore their masks as a chin-warmer.
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Shoreditch, by Terry Freedman
To be honest, I don’t know what sort of creative writing this picture might inspire, but I think it looks nice!
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Boots, by Terry Freedman
I am looking forward to spending time on myself and my own projects.
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quotation marks, by Terry Freedman
One of my rules is that when I see a quote from a report, say, or a news item, I don’t re-quote it until I’ve read the original document from which the excerpt was taken. The reason for this is quite simple…
Read MoreKarina Vidler has penned a great poem about “zooming”!
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Coming soon, by Terry Freedman
Later today I shall hit ‘Publish’, after which the latest issue of my books bulletin will go flying out around the world.
Read MoreAn experiment was carried out to determine whether or not the Image Block in the Squarespace Editor would accept an animated gif rather than a static jpg or png image.
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Terry thinking, by Terry
I’ve just discovered — it’s only taken me 11 years — that Squarespace allows you to create a link to another page using something called a content block.
Read MoreThe focus was not so much on viewing the city through a tourist’s lens as on looking at how spaces in the city interacted with the experiences of the authors or, rather, the narrators in their stories.
Read MoreThis is a very clever book. Too clever, in fact, for any one person to fully appreciate I think.
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podcast-ai Screenshot, by Terry Freedman
A Chrome extension called Podcast.ai enables you to convert browser tabs to podcasts. Sometimes.
Read MoreMy reading journey feels like the kind of trek where, exhausted, you make for the brow of the hill just ahead of you, only to discover that an even higher hill lies just beyond.
Read More(Amended) The pages in my copy are marked (in pencil of course) all the way through, to highlight wonderfully-crafted sentences.
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