I’ve spent the last term on a course called Great European Short Stories. Here are my views on the course, the tutor, and the other courses of his that I’ve attended.
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Review: Short-Form Creative Writing
Short-form writing is neither quick nor easy, but the effort is, in my opinion, worth it. This book explores the form with useful information, challenging exercises, and interesting examples.
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My first foray into the world of Oulipo.
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Should writers aim for unmindfulness?
in Bookshelf, Moments, Reviews, Quick looks
Perhaps a useful aim of writers is to lead the reader to put the book or article down, and disappear in a flight of imagination. After all, surely one measure of success is that what you’ve written led someone to think of something, or to make connections, that had not occurred to them before?
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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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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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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.
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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What I've been reading: Dreyer's English
A no-nonsense style guide that manages to be both humorous and readable too.
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Review of Writing: Making Your Mark (Exhibition)
If you’re in London, you might be interested in this exhibition on the history of writing, at the British Library. Here are my views on it.
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Book review: Brainstorm
What’s a book about epilepsy doing on a writing-related website? Read on and find out.
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Why students can't write
in Reviews, News & views
Why is students’ writing so awful, generally speaking, that employers complain about it? John Warner has some interesting ideas about why this might be the case.
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Collins Complete Writing Guide
Book review: Collins Complete Writing Guide
Should this book be in the reference section of your bookshelf, or is too lighthearted? Here’s my verdict.
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My writing desk, by Terry Freedman
Review of WordCounter
in Reviews
Here’s my evaluation of WordCounter which, erm, counts words — plus a whole bunch of other stuff.
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Books, by Terry Freedman
Another kind of book review
in Reviews
I’ve added another kind of book review to my previous list of five.
Read MoreReview of a creative nonfiction course
I recently did a creative writing course. Here are my reflections on it.
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Frazzled, by Terry Freedman
Review of the American Gothic course at the City Lit
Why has doing a course on American fiction been so enjoyable, and useful to me as a non-fiction writer?
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10 note-taking apps for writers
in How to, Reviews, Technology, Reference
How can you remember all those ideas you have or snippets of conversation you hear while out and about? These ten note-taking approaches should help.
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How to make money as a freelance writer
Book Review: How to make money as a freelance writer
Freelance writers’ earnings tend to be very low for most people. However, this book provides suggestions on how to make decent money in this field.
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