writing
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Not to be outdone by her ‘brother’, Morris, lending a paw two weeks ago, 17-year-old Clio thought she’d ‘help’ me this week.
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Yesterday I advised on the opportunity writing readers’ letters can bring. Here’s a tip to optimise your chances of having a letter accepted: A lot of readers’ letters published on the letters pages are about articles previously featured in the magazines. If you send your letter off as soon as you can, you enhance your…
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Flick through any magazine and you’re likely to find a letters page. Some letters concern readers’ thoughts about the magazine and articles featured, others tell of amusing anecdotes, together with photos. There are letters which allow readers to let off steam and letters touching on more serious matters. Essentially there are letters about anything and…
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It’s been a very busy one this week – lots of early mornings and late nights but things are beginning to come together. The books are finished and I’m now going to set them aside for a short time while I take a deep breath before the pruning begins. In the meantime, you can read…
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As all cat owners know, the following saying is so true! ‘Never feed your cat anything that doesn’t match the carpet’.
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…if Kindle and e-publishing take over???!!!
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Always Back Up Your Work It’s so so easy to rely on your computer’s hard drive but what happens when that hard drive fails? Sometimes work can be recovered but often it’s lost for good. There are several ways you can back up your work. Here are the main ones: * CD-ROM * USB Flash…
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Whether you’re a full-time writer or write as a hobby, there are always days when the ideas and writing just don’t come together. This is when it’s good to work on something a little different. Then you can go back to your writing feeling refreshed and ready to start anew. Here’s an exercise to give…
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It’s been a busy week so far but a positive one. Tutoring for The Writers Bureau is something which I love especially when a student has a success to report, which happened this week. As all you writers know, success can sometimes be elusive and so gaining publication is something to be proud of and…
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It’s so easy to make mistakes when writing articles, short stories etc. Just one or two letters is all that it takes to alter all meaning and to make for a very different kind of read to the one the writer intended, as this example shows: She gazed out the front window, chewing her lips…
