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Round-up, 13 November 2012: Ballot Design, Accents, Trends, Why British Students Can’t Write, Sendak

Among the many angles in the coverage of last week’s US election, the story that fascinated me the most was

It was great to be in Boulder this last week. I caught up with many dear folk, including various former

Okay, okay, that was rather a cranky post I made yesterday about the start/onslaught of NaNoWriMo. So in an effort

It’s NaNoWriMo time! Gimme an N! Gimme an A! Gimme a paragraph that’s a unit of thought! I really admire

Tis the witching season. * Write a story or a poem about a ghost. * Include some trove that you

A lot of noise this week (quite rightly in my view) on how Amazon controls your Kindle content, and can

Though it in fact feels focused more on planning and outlining, there are some useful tips and resources in a

We can come up with brilliant ideas, storylines, and characters, but they’re unlikely to be much use unless we can

Some good coverage of Hilary Mantel winning the Man Booker Prize for Bring Up The Bodies, an event that made

I’m (finally) tidying/unpacking/autmun-cleaning my study (a year after moving in), and of course turn to the Web to find something

As I mentioned earlier in the week, I saw the fabulous production of Twelfth Night at the Globe on Sunday,

‘When one is tired of Frankfurt, one must be tired of publishing’ – or so we are told! I was