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Blog: Replacing “other” with something meaningful from
Kent Index in the group Kent Index (Blog) 5 years, 4 months agoI’ve started to notice a build up of classifieds listings parked in the category “other”. That’s generally a sign that more categories are needed. So I expanded […]
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Blog: 57. A Pleasure to Burn from
Becky's Book Reviews in the group Book bloggers 5 years, 4 months agoA Pleasure To Burn: Fahrenheit 451 Stories. Ray Bradbury. 2010. Subterranean Press. 400 pages. [Source: Library] [Short stories; Novellas]A Pleasure to Burn is a […]
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Blog: Tips, links and suggestions: what are you reading this week? from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 5 years, 4 months agoYour space to discuss the books you are reading and what you think of them Are you on Instagram? Then you can be featured here by tagging your books-related posts […]
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Blog: Yuval Noah Harari: 'Will coronavirus change our attitudes to death? Quite the opposite' from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 5 years, 4 months agoWill the coronavirus pandemic return us to more traditional and accepting, attitudes towards dying – or reinforce our attempts to prolong life? The modern world h […]
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Blog: My favourite book as a kid: Mister God, This is Anna by Fynn from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 5 years, 4 months agoRhik Samadder is still moved by the story of a precocious foundling and a teenager exploring London’s East End and spiritual lifeFunny, how rereading a book m […]
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Blog: International Booker prize postponed due to coronavirus from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 5 years, 4 months agoPublishers of novels shortlisted for the £50,000 prize appeal to organisers as book sales take a battering under lockdownThe six authors up for this year’s Internat […]
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Blog: Poem of the week: Safe Houses by Bernard O’Donoghue from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 5 years, 4 months agoWondering where the house keys are sets off a chain of associations leading to a much larger questionSafe HousesI find that I have started recentlyto keep spare […]
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Blog: Are you promoting your business during the lockdown? from
Kent Index in the group Kent Index (Blog) 5 years, 4 months agoHit the ground running by advertising your business before your competitors think to do so. The COVID-19 lockdown has hurt a lot of businesses. While you are […]
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Blog: The Trick review – William Leith on how to make a packet from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 5 years, 4 months agoThe journalist and writer turns his stream-of-consciousness style to a question that has always niggled him – why isn’t he rich?William Leith’s primary subje […]
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Blog: Carol Ann Duffy leads British poets creating 'living record' of coronavirus from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 5 years, 4 months agoMajor names including Imtiaz Dharker, Jackie Kay and father-and-son poets Ian and Andrew McMillan to document outbreak in verse Coronavirus – latest updatesSee a […]
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Matthew Brown commented on the post,
Writer’s anxiety: How to live with and overcome it, on the groupblog Thanet Creative 5 years, 4 months agoThe answer to is it hard to become a writer is both yes and no. As for publishers, some writers prefer to work with them while others prefer to self-publish. You might be better off asking that question on Author Buzz UK.
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Blog: Naoise Dolan: 'I'm not good at presenting myself as likeable' from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 5 years, 4 months agoThe young Irish writer, who has won acclaim for her debut novel, on writing in a time of crisis and finding comfort in small routinesIt’s the author’s equ […]
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Blog: Sitopia by Carolyn Steel review – big questions about food from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 5 years, 4 months agoTo live better we need to see food as more than a commodity, argues the author of Hungry City in this ambitious ‘all-you-can-eat buffet of thoughts’In the ope […]
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Blog: Zonal by Don Paterson review – rich, masked musings on midlife crisis from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 5 years, 4 months agoThe prize-winning poet’s new collection, inspired by The Twilight Zone, is a witty, wily hall of mirrorsThere is a scene in the black-and-white sci-fi TV p […]
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Blog: Chimpanzee typing from
AB-IN.UK: Author Buzz (in) UK in the group AB-in.UK 5 years, 4 months agoDirect link URL https://ab-in.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/Chimpanzee_seated_at_typewriter.jpg Image Description This chimpanzee typing is an Author Buzz […]
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Blog: business and entrepreneurship from
AB-IN.UK: Author Buzz (in) UK in the group AB-in.UK 5 years, 4 months agoA collection of images for business, trading, and entrepreneurship topics. Lots of business and office type settings, plenty of laptops, a few mugs of coffee and a […]
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The artist and the key collector in the group The Muse of Last Resort: 5 years, 4 months agoHim
He is a fastidiously tidy and well-organised person who collects old keys. He works at a small shop that specialises in restoring furniture. He hopes, one day, to discover a lock that one of his old keys […]
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Blog: 56. Killing November from
Becky's Book Reviews in the group Book bloggers 5 years, 4 months agoKilling November. Adriana Mather. 2019. 368 pages. [Source: Review copy] [YA Fiction; YA Action; YA Mystery] […]
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Matthew Brown replied to the topic Do you suffer from writer's block? in the forum General Chat 5 years, 4 months ago
If there were such an easy cure, someone would have made a fat stack of cash writing a book about it.
Maybe even a series.
Or it would be so well known that writers’ block would never be an issue.
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Matthew Brown replied to the topic How do you give a lot of necessary world-building knowledge without info-dumps? in the forum Aspiring Authors 5 years, 4 months ago
If you need to introduce that much background information before the plot proper can get underway then you need a narrative that can act both as character introduction and development whilst also being a tour of your world.
From the sounds of what you are describing you first act (25%) is probably this easing in phase. Following an outside into…Read more
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Blog: My favourite book as a kid: Sabriel by Garth Nix from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 5 years, 4 months agoThe author of the bestselling Bone Season novels rereads the book that first showed her fantasy could make room for the heroic femaleMore lockdown readingMy […]
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Blog: Oxford dictionary revised to record linguistic impact of Covid-19 from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 5 years, 4 months agoOED lexicographers report seeing huge rise in ‘a very short period of time’ of many coronavirus-related terms including self-isolation and WFHWith terms such as […]
