This is just a very quick heads-up. I’m just about to send off four reviews to Teach Secondary magazine. I will post the reviews here once they’ve been published there (that’s the deal), but here are one-liners to whet your appetite.
Read MoreIf, like me, you enjoy reading around a subject, and probing a little deeper than strictly necessary, and you are an avid reader or a determined writer, Bookish Words should appeal to you.
Read MoreIn this article, I republish a review of mine that was first published in Teach Secondary magazine. Next, there follows the article I actually sent in. The differences are only minor, but I thought you might find it interesting to examine the differences, and consider what difference they make, if any, to your experience and understanding of the review.
Read MoreIn this article, I republish a review of mine that was first published in Teach Secondary magazine. Next, there follows the article I actually sent in. The differences are only minor, but I thought you might find it interesting to examine the differences, and consider what difference they make, if any, to your experience and understanding of the review.
Read MoreTaking the reader from the Middle Ages to more or less the present day, Gray shows how the kind of places we do our shopping in, and what we buy, have changed over the centuries.
Read MoreOn the 21st June I’ll be teaching a course called Creative Writing with Constraints. (Note the word “constraints”, not “restraints”.) This article outlines how I prepared for it.
Read MoreIn this article, I republish a review of mine that was first published in Teach Secondary magazine. Next, there follows the article I actually sent in. The differences are only minor, but I thought you might find it interesting to examine the differences, and consider what difference they make, if any, to your experience and understanding of the review.
Read MoreJust because I love technology and spend a lot of time on the web, and writing for the web, doesn’t mean I’ve eschewed books.
Read MoreThe 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.
Read MoreFrom the archives: How will Virtual Reality reportage affect our experience of the news? What are the ethical issues involved?
Read MoreUnless you’re so poor at spelling or English in general that a spell-checker wouldn’t do you much good anyway, there isn’t really any excuse for this sort of thing.
Read MoreListen, thou fobbing clapper-clawed clotpole! The internet is useful for more things than mere facts.
Read MoreYesterday I was going to write an article, using chunks of a couple of articles I’d published before (plus some original material).
Read MoreWhat is writing with constraints? In a nutshell, it means writing according to specific and tight rules. The “official” name for this is Oulipo, which is a French acronym for Ouvroir de littérature potentielle.
Read More“One of the unexpected benefits of the Covid-19 pandemic has been clear blue skies.”
Read MoreSome people say "of course creative writing can be taught", while others say the opposite. I take a slightly more nuanced view.
Read MoreI am afraid I cannot agree with those who say “No” to any use of AI whatsoever. I think the issue is more nuanced than that.
Read MoreHere’s my evaluation of WordCounter which, erm, counts words — plus a whole bunch of other stuff.
Read MoreI wrote this review wearing my school teacher hat. However, it struck me that optimism is something all writers need a great deal of!
Read MoreI wrote the review wearing my school teacher hat. However, it struck me that the “small habits” approach to writing is something useful to consider.
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