Editor & main contributor: Terry Freedman. Published in the UK. ISSN 1474-6816
The purpose of this website is to enable me to share ideas about writing, including reviews of books and even films that may have a bearing on the craft of writing. My credentials, in case you’re wondering, are that I’ve been having articles and books published since 1990.
In this essay I have used three different AI apps to analyse a piece of my writing, and to make suggestions for improvement.
Is it really two years since I first published this? Hopefully, it has stood the test of time.
One of the things I’ve been trying out is reworking a piece of text into a completely different style. A full exposition and explanation are given here: Experimenting with styles.
What is the point of being a PR person for a publishing company, if you don’t bother to respond to requests for review copies?
Sometimes it’s better to keep your head down…
A personal tribute.
I wish this had been around years ago.
This is an encyclopaedic work focused on political satire.
Art, art history, politics with a small ‘p’.
I submitted my review of this book to Teach Secondary magazine, an educational magazine in the UK. The first review below is what the magazine published. The second one is what I actually wrote!
Journalistic integrity and reader manipulation.
As my course on blogging is coming up, here's this.: my reflections on some of the reasons that I think writers should maintain a blog.