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Experiments in style: variations

Behind the disco version

Review of The Girl at the Tram Stop

Reply to Rebecca #27

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Experiments in style: Disco version

How to repurpose old articles,

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Experiments in style: Sponsored version

9 incredibly useful AI resources

Reply #26

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Experiments in style: Doctor's report

Hardboiled version analysis

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Experiments in style: Cryptic crossword version

What I look for in my experiments in style

Reply to Rebecca #25

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Experiments in style: Hardboiled

How I write, and other discursions

Treading the Boards

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Experiments in style: Official Letter

Experiments in style: how I created the parts of speech version

Reply to Rebecca #24

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Experiments in Style: the naming of parts

My grandfather and me

Effective writing

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Review: The Written World and the Unwritten World

Experiments in style: comic strips

How I read 4 books -- and reviewed them -- in under a week -- NOW FREE TO ALL!

Reply to 'Letter' ABOUT Terry

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Experiments in Style: Soul

How to write short

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Experiments in Style: Reading primer

How to create tick boxes

Reply to Rebecca #23

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Experiments in style: reverse order

Propaganda at work

How I didn't write one of my books

Quick Look: From EdTech to PedTech

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Experiments in Style: I Remember

Using a spreadsheet to process words

Reply to Rebecca #22

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Experiments in Style: Another point of view

How I tackled the synchysis style

Learning from the Mulla

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The Big Sweep

Experiments in style: Synchysis

Beginnings

The Man of the Woods

Reply to Rebecca #21

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Experiments in Style: Unassertive

How I overcame writer's block...

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Dream writing

Miscommunication

Reply to Rebecca #20

How I created a publishing schedule

Experiments in Style: Wooster

How to enter text quickly

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Experiment in style: Litotes

Review: Clouds like dust and other poems*UPDATED

Reply to Rebecca #19

Insider peeks #3

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Experiments in style: chromatic version

Forgotten paths and winding memories

Writing with constraints

Insider peeks #2

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Experiments in style: liponym version

Solitude and isolation

How to conduct online meetings

Reply to Rebecca #18

Insider peeks #1

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Experiments in style: Advertisement version

Review of Deadly at Midnight, by Johnny Lane

What I learnt from prioritising my writing

On the underground

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Experiments in style: adjectives and adverbs version

Reply to Rebecca #17

How I manage my 'experiments in style' UPDATE: this post is now open to all

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Experiments in style: Alphabetical version

Behind the scenes: a memoir UPDATE! -- comments are now open to all

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Experiments in Style: Footnotes version

Reply to Rebecca #16

How I constructed my Superstition post

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Experiments in style: Cliché version

Superstition

All that jazz

Why schools should have a hyper-local blog

All that jazz

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Experiments in style: Social media version

The magic of magic

Classification of articles that may be included in a newsletter

Review of Technicians, an exhibition at the Science Museum in London

Reply to Rebecca #15

Research on the move - updated

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Experiments in style: the corporate statement version

Some thoughts on Home Fire

Review: Blurb your enthusiasm

The artist's studio

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Experiments in style: pictorial version

Reply to Rebecca #14

The point of pointless writing

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Experiments in Style

Bulk renaming utilities

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Experiments in style: three versions

The romantic life of the book reviewer

Spellchecker blues

Reply to Rebecca #13

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Experiments in style: punctuation only

Giving up sugar

Essential tips for writers who use technology

Experiments in style: book reviews

8 ways to use your phone's camera

Bad pitches

Reply to Rebecca #12

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Experiments in style: a mystery technique

The death of writer's block

One way I write my articles

Three collections of Oulipo writing

Experiments in Style: Play version

Periodicals And Organisations I've Written Or Write For

No laughing matter, revisited

Reply to Rebecca #11

5 minute tip #8: 13 Ways to avoid losing your work

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Experiments in style: Overblown writing

This Doesn't Add Up

Review of The Story of Science Fiction course

Review of Science Fiction: Voyage to the edge of imagination

5 minute tip #7

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Experiments in Style: the N + 7 method

Using codes when note-taking

Nabokov's Lolita

Letter to Rebecca #10

Deadly at Midnight

5 minute tip #6

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Experiments in Style: three this time as an Easter bonus!

The Writer's Journey: in the footsteps of the literary greats

5 minute tip #5

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Experiments in style, by a very private person...

25 websites for free illustrations

Meadow: The intimate bond between people, place and plants

Letter to Rebecca #9

5 minute tip #4

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Experiments in style: Spot the difference

Trains

5 minute tip #3

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Experiments in Style: Index version

Experiments in style

5 minute tip #2

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Reply to Rebecca #8

HIJKLMNO

5 minute tip #1

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5 Minute Instruction

Review of Old Truths and New Clichés

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[Reposted and updated] The Kreutzer Sonata, by Tolstoy

Introducing ChatGPT

Letter to Rebecca #7

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A brand new 'Experiment in style'

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6 Ways To Respond To Requests For Pointless Data

Eclecticism magazine

Review of Revenge of the Librarians

Letter to Rebecca #6

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[Revisited] The joys of non-standard English

"Facilitators" Or "Guides On The Side"? No Thanks

Subverting a model...

Teachers setting a good example

Toxic leadership

[Updated] In praise of David Ackles

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Review of the Hieroglyphs exhibition

Three experiments

Article planner (premium version)

Article planner

Controlling which emails you receive

Letter to Rebecca #5

My reading plans for 2023

Oops

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Review of Science Fiction: lots of photos <UPDATED>

Course outlines written by ChatGPT *Updated*

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The Homework Excuse Management System

It's good to see you

An advertisement for my newsletter in the style of a 1930s wise guy gangster

My reply to Rebecca's letter #4

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One of the more useful signs I've seen

The great American Language

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Sounds painful