You never know who you’re going to meet in London. Yesterday, I saw a zombie walking around the Microsoft Decoded conference.
Read MoreA zombie in London, by Terry Freedman. The “zombibe” pictured is James, from the Hel’s Angels agency.
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Book review: The Online Journalism Handbook
in Bookshelf, Journalism, Reviews
This is a very useful reference book for anyone who is serious about online journalism.
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Goal-setting, Screenshot by Terry Freedman
How to automate your writing schedule with Google Calendar
in Technology
Unfortunately, Google cannot (yet!) do your writing for you, but it can help you by identifying times when you could write, and inserting “Writing” (or “Research” or whatever you choose) into your calendar.
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Come in and haggle, by Terry Freedman
Photoprompt #16: Let's have a haggle
Another photoprompt. This notice, seen in a shop window, could provide the starting point of a story or article.
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Review: The Story of Paintings
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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Writing reviews and reports, by Terry Freedman
Book review round-up to August 2019
in Bookshelf
Here are links to recent book reviews I’ve published on this website. Look out for more soon.
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Southwold Beach Huts, by Terry Freedman
Photoprompt #13: Southwold Beach Huts
Believe it or not, this photo was taken in the summer!
Read MoreMind your language (2): A strange sign
in Language
Perhaps I shouldn’t take things so literally…
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Lymm Dam, by Terry Freedman
PhotoPrompt #15: Lymm Dam
What does this picture inspire you to write?
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Writers reference books, by Terry Freedman
Mind your language (1)
in Bad writing, Language
Words are being used in ways which are completely wrong – in fact, in some cases the meaning is the exact opposite of the way the word is being used, like when the word "choose" means you have no choice at all.
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Blogger, by Terry Freedman
Blogging taster course
in News & views
One of the daftest pieces of advice I was given, by a so-called marketing expert, was to not bother with maintain my own blog: too much hassle. Write on other people’s blogs instead.
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Empty bench and table, by Terry Freedman
The power of the one-sided conversation
How about forgetting all that “She said…”, “He said…” stuff? There is real power in a piece of prose or poetry where you can “hear” only one side of the conversation.
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Slippery surface, by Terry Freedman
Maintenance work warning
in News & views
I’m going to be transferring the domain name of the Writers’ Know-how website to another hosting company, so there may be a short loss of service.
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Listening to a podcast, by Terry Freedman
What I've been listening with: Lindy BNX-60 Bluetooth headphones
in Reviews
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.
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Further thoughts on listening to documents on the Kindle Fire
I found listening to documents on the Kindle Fire very useful on the whole, so today I extended the practice by listening to a document while driving. Here’s what I found.
Read MoreListening to documents on the Kindle Fire UPDATED
in Reviews, Technology, Research
The 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 MoreReview of Grammarly -- Updated version
in News & views, Reference, Reviews
Read about a great proofreading tool.
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Harmonicas, by Terry Freedman
Photoprompt #14: Harmonicas
Can the little one be played?
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Frustration, by Terry Freedman
How to fix a phantom paper jam
What can you do if your printer tells you there’s a paper jam even though there isn’t? Try this solution.
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Cine camera by Terry Freedman
How my writing career was nearly finished before it even began
What was it a teacher said that in effect caused me to stop writing for years? And what have I learnt from it?
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