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Fresh voices
I was teaching some teenagers to make a shared website today, for Pulp Net. They called me Miss, which made me feel incredibly old. Half of them started making entries about music and adding myspace...
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Speaking plants
Ok so I have a blog. But I have standards, I am not going to twitter. Not ever. Over in Apple HQ I have heard they have plants that twitter. If you need to know what this is about, go see it here. If...
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Teaching – writing a shared website
Set up some new dates to do more community teaching for Pulp Net, looking forward to that, have learnt a lot from the ones I’ve done before and will aim to keep it simple as we have to pack all the...
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LitCamp London 2008 in countdown mode
Been too busy to post, lots of emails, phonecalls and meetings and so on about LitCamp. I am glad it’s billed as an unconference because no one (including me) knows exactly what to expect. Don’t want...
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Conjunctionitis
One of those mornings (at the day job) when I’m wrapped up in my work and keen to write more. There’s a faintly anachronistic discussion about whether or not conjunctions may be used to start a...
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Citation needed (Wikipedia)
Incidentally, I love it when Wikipedia says ‘citation needed’ – evidence of the multiple personalities behind the machine. Posted in Life, websites, Writing, Writing for the web Tagged: websites,...
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Repetition vs textual cleverness
Repetition doesn't mean you think your readers are stupid - only that you accept that your readers don't want to hang around, they just want to quickly skim-read the page and get on. They don't want...
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WordPress
At the day job, I use a grandiose and self-important web content management system, one that lends itself airs and post-justifies big bills to clients by declaiming that it is an “enterprise solution”....
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Willesden Herald Short Story Prize
Willesden Herald Short Story prize is now open. Closing date 18 December 2009. “Entries must be entirely your own work and never previously published or broadcast, online or offline.” One entry per...
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I write like… [some man or other]
So, someone has built a website to analyse your writing style and tell you which famous writer you write like.
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Writing competitions: some useful links
Writing competitions vary greatly in how they are organised and judged, and the rewards they offer. But they can provide a useful impetus to get a piece of writing finished and edited.
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