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Showing posts with label authors. Show all posts
Showing posts with label authors. Show all posts

Thursday, May 03, 2007

Organise your writing to flow in an easy-to-digest manner


Organise your writing to flow in an easy-to-digest manner.


Right - what does this writing 'tip' actually mean?
Does any writer who knows what they are trying to achieve actually set out to make the prose difficult to read? Really? Do they? I know some academics try to make their essays/books hard to read to 'keep the riff raff out', no really, they do, but the honest to goodness fiction writer? I don't think so. Obviously class, time you were born, how you were schooled, where you were schooled, whether or not you're writing in your first language amongst many, many other things, come into this.

My tip? Cull the adverbs and keep it as honest as it needs to be. No unnecessary words!


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Sunday, April 29, 2007

Authors@Google: from the Official Google Blog


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I have been reading The Official Google Blog for a couple of months now. I subscribed to it shortly after starting to use their personalised homepage and email services. A rather interesting post on Friday 27th April seems worthy of mention here as it is about authors.


Google invite some of the worlds leading authors to speak about their recently published books at Google's offices in the US and have expanded this programme to other offices throughout the Googlesphere. Imagine going to work and Martin Amis or Max Barry is speaking at lunch time! Fantastic huh?


If you're interested in watching one of these talks, you can do so on YouTube by getting on over to the Googletalks video archive at YouTube. There is also an index of videos at Google.
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The 'official' Official Google Blog: Authors@Google is available by clicking on this link.




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Mark

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