I’m an extreme ‘lister’. It’s like an addiction albeit a fairly healthy – even if a little OCD – addiction. I have lists for everything: writing, family management, meals, shopping, bills, paperwork, daily to-do’s, and more.
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Goal setting, Musings from the heart, Writing
I’m more than midway through my second draft of my young adult climate change fiction novel and I feel like I’m climbing an enormous mountain.
This is the hard slog. Now.
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Editing, Writing, Writing tips
Non-fiction writing is a fairly broad term and can include articles, essays, interview, manuals, profiles, reports and reviews. The purpose of it can be to instruct, record, persuade, enlighten, inform, provoke, amuse, reassure, excite, inspire or assist. The non-fiction editor needs to ensure the aims and challenges that come with this form of writing are met.
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Editing, Editing and communications, Writing tips
Travel writing is a good way to earn money as a writer as many places publish them. Tourists don’t know where they’ve been, travellers don’t know where they’re going. Travel is only glamorous in retrospect. – Paul Theroux
According to Ruth Reichl good reviews (whether food, travel, books or art) prepare the reader for the experience and the most important rule is to review what they are trying to do, not what you wish they were doing.
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Editing, Editing and communications, Writing tips
So you want to write a short story and get it published. Easy. Not many words. No worries. The reality is that this isn’t necessarily true.
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Editing, Editing and communications, Writing tips
Reviews can be short and to the point with a word count of approximately 100 words, or they can be long and detailed with a word count from 500 words up. When you are reviewing for papers or magazines you will usually be given the details on the word count.
Previewing films, shows, performance and exhibitions doesn’t need to be complicated. With the right tools, a clear and enticing preview can grab the reader’s attention and entice them in.
First thing is to look at is who you are writing for, that is: Who is your reader and what are they interested in?
I know we are meant to be embracing this wonderful new technology, but I am struggling.
A friend has lent me her ereader so I can read the next book on the list for our book club and she thinks it would be good for me to give a try with the idea that I may get one as well. I’m the last one in my book club to move onto the new technology and I am at least ten years younger than the rest. In fact, I am meant to the age that is embracing new technology. As it turns out, the half generation above me is.
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