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Writing

Time for a refit: this blog is going into dry dock

This isn’t a proper post, just a piece of admin, and advance warning that this blog is about to undergo a redesign.
I wanted to warn the regular readers (hi Gina, hi Lyndon) that things could get a bit chaotic around here for a few days / weeks. Nothing serious – but things might look [...]

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Six ways to get more original ideas into your blog posts

How do you get ideas for blog posts? How do you add more original content to a blog, rather than relying on reusing material from others? Here are six tips.

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Writing advice – straight from the horse’s mouth

Writing advice is everywhere on the internet. There’s way too much to link to on a regular basis without getting overwhelmed. But today there’s a great article on writing advice from a range of writers, mostly novelists, on the website of the UK newspaper The Guardian. It’s well worth checking out.
These are not archive tips [...]

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10 ways to write scannable web copy

Scannable web copy – 10 techniques to help you write for readers who scan web pages.

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Add rhetoric to your writing – with the periodic sentence

How to add rhetoric to your writing – with the periodic sentence

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A quick and easy way to add ooomph to your copy

A writing exercise with two rules: no sentence can be more than ten words long; and no word can have more than one syllable.

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Techniques that can help you get a draft written

Sometimes the words won’t flow. You don’t know where to start. The prospect of actually writing something and committing to it, getting it right and good enough, is so daunting that it freezes you. There are ways around this. Here are eight of them, discussed briefly.

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How to write a film or TV documentary treatment or proposal

How to write a film or TV documentary treatment or proposal

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Write better email

Write better email

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Analyse your writing style

o’Faust text analyser

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New writing tool

Ulysses – a new writing software package

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Four ways to take your writing to another level

Do you want your writing to stand out, to have power and persuasiveness, to have life and zest and energy? Then here are four ways to take your writing to another level:

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Three things you must know before you start to write

Three crucial things you must know before you start to write

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Stop writing! That’s enough ‘content’ already

There’s been a deluge of ‘content’ onto the Internet. We’re drowning in it already – and the Internet is barely into its adolescence. Oh Google, Google, what have you done?

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The seven Cs of story structure

A summary of plot and story structure

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