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Shout It Out! It’s so easy to make mistakes in your writing, whether it’s missing full stops, an extra word, stilted sentences or a comma in the wrong place. An excellent way for highlighting those mistakes is to read your work aloud. You’ll soon see where a full stop should go or if you’ve repeated…
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Yesterday I advised that I was going to start sharing ideas for markets for freelancers. I’ll provide websites whenever possible so you can find out further information. However, as well as looking up details on a publication’s website, it’s also important to obtain a copy/copies of the magazine. On its website, you can get a…
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After the thrills of being seated along the start/finish straight at the British Formula One Grand Prix on Sunday, it’s been hard to get into the writing groove this week. My ears have only just stopped ringing from the deafening roar of the cars racing round the track at ridiculous speeds but it’s certainly an…
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My award for ‘Funny Of The Week’ goes to this cute little chap who really does look like he’s laughing at a joke. It seems that his brother just doesn’t get it. Bless 🙂
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When I came across this photo I had to share it. Just looking at it makes you smile – even if it’s Monday and the start of a working week! Â Â
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Check, check and re-check! In my interview for ‘The Write Place’ (http://www.writersbureau.com/editorimages/Issue%207a.pdf) I was asked to give a tip for copywriting students. I advised on making sure that they read the brief from the client very carefully. A similar point can be applied to writing competitions, whether they’re poetry, short story or article writing competitions.…
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Yesterday in my blog about my writing week, I wrote about aiming to send a piece of work out everyday. As writers, especially when first starting out, we can be a bit precious over our work. We send it out, by e-mail or post, and then chew our nails down to stumps, persistently checking our…
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Tutoring and working on my books take up a lot of my time but I still aim to send a piece of work out everyday. Sometimes this may only be a reader’s letter, other times it’s a short story or article. But I find it’s always a good idea to have that goal in mind.…
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We’ve all done it – written a word similar to the one we wanted to write but a word with a very different meaning. I’ve been guilty of writing about a character who was ‘battling through the dessert, his body pushed to breaking point’. Of course, I meant the sandy version i.e. the ‘desert’. The…
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It’s been back to the old photo album this week in search of a photo to accompany a nostalgia piece I’ve written about the comics I enjoyed as a child. The editor wants some photos of me when I was little. I won’t be sending this one in. My mother insists the ‘Elfin-look’ hairdo was…
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