This post is a puzzle for you, and an experiment for me.
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Trains: an Oulipian exercise and challenge
in Oulipo
12 websites for free illustrations for your articles UPDATED! (again)
News of a new version of this original post featuring websites where you can find high quality pictures that are free to use on your own website or blog. I’ve listed more than 25 resources.
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Crossed wires: creative nonfiction
“Terry has a great ability to grasp and capture the everyday, as well as an excellent feel for the quotidian conversations and dialogues that make up so much of our ordinary lives out in the real world. And from this he is able to mine real meaning and insight.” From Tom Bevan’s introduction to this essay.
Read MoreRewriting the classics: should we do it?
in News & views
Should we rewrite the classics? My view is: Yes, kind of, but not in the way you might think.
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Rainham Marshes, by Terry Freedman
Hiding in plain sight
Can you spot the hidden theme word?
Read MoreReview of Old Truths and New Clichés
It is bordering on the preposterous to think that a writer best known for his fiction, and who died nearly thirty years ago, has anything relevant to say to us today.
Read MoreOur corrections policy
in News & views
My corrections policy wasn’t easy to find so I’ve created a dedicated page for it.
Read MoreA new 'Experiment in style': cockney rhyming slang
in Creative Writing, EiS
I’ve been taking a short and very bland story and rewriting it in different styles. This time I’ve chosen cockney (defined as someone born within the sound of Bow bells, in other words a true working class Londoner) rhyming slang.
Read MoreDictator Literature: a lesson in unreadability
There are loads of prizes for writers, but maybe there should be one or two for readers as well.
Read MoreEveryone has a book in them, and with any luck that's where it will stay
This is how Tom Gauld sees it…
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Review of the Hieroglyphs exhibition
If you’re looking for some great inspiration for your writing, or you want an excuse to not write for a day, I highly recommend this exhibition at the British Museum.
Read MoreCalling all writers: a free gift!
If, like me, you write a lot, or you have a blog or a newsletter that features guest writers, you might like this free spreadsheet.
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my reading plan, by Terry Freedman
My reading plans for 2023
You may have noticed that I read a lot. I’ve outlined my reading plans for 2023…
Read MoreCan ChatGPT Create Good Course Outlines?
I’ve been experimenting with using ChatGPT to write course outlines, and for one of the courses I compared the result with the outlines I had already written (and taught to). The results were interesting.
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Image by Mohamed Hassan from Pixabay
I asked an artificial intelligence bot to write advertisements for my newsletter
I asked ChatbotGPT to write an advertisement for my newsletter in various styles. Here’s what it came up with…
Read MoreThe great American language
Who would have thought that an article inspired by the description “long ass” would go viral? Certainly not me. I hope you enjoy reading the article and, especially, the discussion in the comments section. You’ll get a good laugh if nothing else!
Read MoreCan AI write book reviews?
in Bookshelf, News & views, Reviews, Research
I thought I would test ChatGPT’s mettle in a rather self-interested way. I write a lot of book reviews — a lot. I have three books I need to review for an education magazine by 21st January, plus two books I need to review for other websites soonish, and I have to write a review of an exhibition for a different education magazine by next week <gulp>.
Therefore I have two (competing) concerns.
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writer, by Terry Freedman
How I earned $9000 from a free paper
Not many writers can make a living solely from their writing. (Figures released this month in the UK put the figure at only 19%.) Therefore, think creatively of other ways to make money.
Read MoreSeason's greetings!
Christmas greetings from Freedman Towers.
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Aurora and Terry, by Terry Freedman
Creative writing: My attempt to write a Carolean Verse Romance
I’m not known for writing poetry, much less in the style of the 16th century. But I’ve had a go, and I like to think that my poetry is a bit better than my art.
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