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Using zombies to spot the passive voice
Writers are generally encouraged to avoid the passive voice because … well, it’s passive. Take sentences like: My car was[…]
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WCC and digital democracy
Before your eyes glaze over at the next paragraph and you click away, bear with me. This is quite interesting[…]
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WREMO – What a disaster!
Think you’ll get any help from WREMO after a natural disaster? Think again!
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Things you don’t know you know
“Adjectives in English absolutely have to be in this order: opinion-size-age-shape-colour-origin-material-purpose Noun. So you can have a lovely little old rectangular green French silver whittling knife. But if you mess with that word order in the slightest you’ll sound like a maniac.”
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Neil Gaiman on Piracy
“I used to get really grumpy with people because they put my poems up, they put my stories up, they put my stuff up on the web. And I had this belief, which was completely erroneous, that if people put your stuff up on the web and you didn’t tell them to take it down, you would lose your copyright.”
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How to wreck a planet
The headlines say it all: Human society under urgent threat from loss of Earth’s natural life Humans Are Speeding Extinction[…]
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Quotes : Rebecca West
“If one is a woman writer there are certain things one must do. First, not be too good; second, die[…]
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Free Books!
A couple of my books have been selected by American author Mike Wells as part of his Mysteries & Thrillers[…]
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Quote: Russell Blake
“Seven years is a long time. Over half many dogs’ lives. Little over 2500 days. During which time I’ve written[…]
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