What can be more infuriating to a potential purchaser of a non-fiction book than chapter headings which give no clue as to their contents?
Read MorePlain Speaking - 4 Secrets For Getting Your Book Purchased
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On This Day, by Terry Freedman
On this day #7: Review of Help! for Writers
in Bookshelf, On this day, Hardware, Reviews
On 22 December 2015 I published a review of Help! For Writers, by Roy Peter Clark. I liked the book back then. Do I still like it now?
Read MoreA bang on the head
in EiS
I waited petrified among people for whom “social distancing” means not quite touching you, and who wore their masks as a chin-warmer.
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Shoreditch, by Terry Freedman
PhotoPrompt #53: Shoreditch
To be honest, I don’t know what sort of creative writing this picture might inspire, but I think it looks nice!
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Boots, by Terry Freedman
Hanging up my boots, partly
in News & views
I am looking forward to spending time on myself and my own projects.
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quotation marks, by Terry Freedman
If you're going to cite someone, do so properly!
in News & views
One of my rules is that when I see a quote from a report, say, or a news item, I don’t re-quote it until I’ve read the original document from which the excerpt was taken. The reason for this is quite simple…
Read MoreA Zoom poem
Karina Vidler has penned a great poem about “zooming”!
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Coming soon, by Terry Freedman
New issue of Terry Freedman's Books Bulletin!
in News & views
Later today I shall hit ‘Publish’, after which the latest issue of my books bulletin will go flying out around the world.
Read MoreExperiment: Using a gif rather than an image
in EiS, Technology, Oulipo, The lighter side
An experiment was carried out to determine whether or not the Image Block in the Squarespace Editor would accept an animated gif rather than a static jpg or png image.
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Terry thinking, by Terry
My other writing blog
in Utility
I’ve just discovered — it’s only taken me 11 years — that Squarespace allows you to create a link to another page using something called a content block.
Read MoreReview: The European City in Contemporary Literature
in Reviews
The focus was not so much on viewing the city through a tourist’s lens as on looking at how spaces in the city interacted with the experiences of the authors or, rather, the narrators in their stories.
Read MoreReview: Leaving the Atocha Station
This is a very clever book. Too clever, in fact, for any one person to fully appreciate I think.
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podcast-ai Screenshot, by Terry Freedman
Turn Chrome browser tabs into podcasts
A Chrome extension called Podcast.ai enables you to convert browser tabs to podcasts. Sometimes.
Read MoreReview: Great Novellas
in Reviews
My reading journey feels like the kind of trek where, exhausted, you make for the brow of the hill just ahead of you, only to discover that an even higher hill lies just beyond.
Read MoreReview: Ethan Frome
(Amended) The pages in my copy are marked (in pencil of course) all the way through, to highlight wonderfully-crafted sentences.
Read MoreOn this day #6: A useful search engine
A search engine I wrote about in 2010 still works, and is still useful.
Read MoreMy Writing Day --Variation
A great stimulus, I find, is photography. I always try and take a digital camera with me wherever I go, or at least my phone.
Read MoreReview: Chronicle of a death foretold
It was with some foreboding that I opened this book.
Read MoreReview: Book of Clouds
I’ve never been to Berlin, but I feel like I’ve come to know it through this book.
Read MoreNot so much an ice-breaker as an ice-maker
in News & views
I’m a very private person, and I don’t like sharing things about myself with complete strangers. I don’t even like sharing the fact that I don’t like sharing things.
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