The Redbridge branch of the London Cycling Campaign — or some of us anyway. Photo credit: unknown
Our aim was to cycle into London, specifically Green Park, and watch the fly past. Unfortunately, everyone else in the UK had the same idea…
Read MoreOne of the first things I look for when reviewing a non-fiction book is whether or not it contains an index. If it does, the next thing I check is whether the index is actually useful.
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I pitched an article to a newspaper that, it turns out, pays less if the article has been written by someone who runs their own business. Why?
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A new course for creative writing.
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Fake news by Terry Freedman
My Gilray and plum pie day.
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Shoreditch in black and white, by Terry Freedman
The standard advice for writers who are feeling uninspired or blocked is to allow your mind to wander where it will or to just start writing aimlessly to see what happens. Therefore to suggest the opposite approach, that of imposing some constraints on your thinking, seems completely counterintuitive.
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I think a lot about book reviewing, and am continually experimenting with different forms.
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Just in case I might get too complacent, a malignant Fate decreed that an article I’ve spent hours on has been rejected — by the person who commissioned it.
Read MoreWhat can we learn from an apparently simple list, apart from the contents of the list?
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Cover of The Author magazine, by Terry Freedman
What rituals do writers rely on to help them write?
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For some years I’ve been considering studying for an MA in English Literature. Thus when this course came to my attention I was very interested in using it as a way of dipping my toes in the waters of academia once again.
Read MoreBeing a teenager is not easy.
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These days of “cancelling” people whose views one doesn’t agree with is nothing new. In recent times (the 1950s) this went on at a semi-official level.
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Question mark, by Terry Freedman
In her book Discoverability, Kristine Kathryn Rusch cites the acronym penned by Scott William Carter: WIBBOW.
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It’s always good to be reminded of how to avoid losing a load of work.
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Bookcase, by Terry Freedman
I love second-hand bookshops. Whenever I go on holiday, one of the first things I do is go to the nearest Tourism Information outlet and get a list of the local used bookshops.
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My public writing tends to be mostly about education technology, and the craft of nonfiction writing. My interests are more varied than that brief description would suggest, but to avoid muddying the waters I either attempt to skew an article so that it fits into one of those categories, or not publish it at all. But that has now changed….
Read MoreThe book covers language, voice, audience and other aspects of writing.
Read MoreIt's always been my contention that practitioners should know as much about what they do as possible.
Read MoreThis is a very interesting, and useful, book. It covers a range of types of writing.
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