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Archive for August, 2011


Sense and Sensibility Short Story Competition

CELEBRATING THE BICENTENARY OF JANE AUSTEN’S Sense and Sensibility, Writing Magazine invites you to write your own ‘sense and sensibility’ story for their monthly open creative writing competition. First prize is £200 with a £50 runners up prize. The winning entry will be published in Writing Magazine and it, along with the runners up entry, [...]

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Take Me to Your Reader

HANDS UP WHO’S EVER BEEN ON A WRITING COURSE. My hand is up too. What did you learn? I learnt that throwing a bunch of people together in one pub after weekly classes and asking them to be vaguely artistic together is probably the best that’s going to come out of it. There’s the guy [...]

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Plagiarism and Writing

IS IT PLAGIARISM IF YOU GET PERMISSION to use information that was created by someone else? Answer: No, it’s plagiarism if you take credit for someone else’s work. Here is a dictionary entry for plagiarize (Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary, 11th edition, CD ROM v.3.0, copyright Merriam-Webster 2003) [notice the documentation of the source and the quotation [...]

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What is Ginko? / Writing as You Go

IDA JONES REFERS DEAN CODY CASSADY to the poetic form known as ginko, following correspondence on writing whilst travelling. Travel, it seems, can be what we do anywhere with our eyes open.   (IJ): A ginko is a haiku walk, usually as an organised group. However, it is not necessarily a group event and can [...]

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Comedy Script Writing Tips from Micheal Jacob (1/4)

MICHEAL JACOB HAS BEEN A COMEDY SCRIPT EDITOR, producer and executive producer at Alomo Productions and BBC Television. He is now a script and production consultant. Micheal also kindly offers his time to regularly help comedy writers at the Writers’ Dock forum. In this series of articles, and with his permission, we present excerpts of [...]

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