Monthly Archives: November 2013

THE BEST 43 OPENING LINES IN NOVEL WRITING HISTORY

Posted on November 30, 2013 by [email protected]

They say you can’t judge a book by its cover. A good cover may make us pick the book up and think about buying it. But it’s the first lines are crucial in helping us decide whether we are going … Continue reading →

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WHY THE POPE COMMITTED GENOCIDE

Posted on November 27, 2013 by [email protected]

Or … 13 things Dan Brown didn’t tell you Dan Brown sold a couple of books about ten years ago based on the conspiracy theories of three men called Lincoln, Baigent and Leigh. They had done some research around a … Continue reading →

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15 GOOD REASONS WHY YOU SHOULDN’T WRITE FOR A LIVING

Posted on November 25, 2013 by [email protected]

Do you want to make a career out of writing? Here’s 15 damn good reasons to think again, straight from the trenches, from those who have been there before you. 1. Coleridge was a drug addict. Poe was an alcoholic. … Continue reading →

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22 THINGS YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT JOHN F. KENNEDY

Posted on November 22, 2013 by [email protected]

It is fifty years to the day that President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, but his life - and death - continue to fascinate. He was certainly one of America’s most charismatic Presidents. But how much do you … Continue reading →

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DO YOU KNOW WHO KILLED PRESIDENT KENNEDY?

Posted on November 19, 2013 by [email protected]

Friday is the 50th anniversary of President John F. Kennedy’s assassination. It was the end of Camelot; the death of the last great US President. Only it wasn’t like that. It was nothing like Camelot and Jack had more enemies … Continue reading →

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ARE YOU MAKING THESE SIMPLE GRAMMATICAL ERRORS? A QUIZ TO FIND OUT.

Posted on November 18, 2013 by [email protected]

The Grammar Gestapo are out there! If you slip up they’ll be onto you faster than a bull shark on a whale carcass. Even as I write this, I keep asking myself … should I have put an ellipsis there? … Continue reading →

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THE SHOCKING TRUTH ABOUT THE SHOCKING TRUTH

Posted on November 15, 2013 by [email protected]

16 THINGS A WAR CORRESPONDENT WILL TELL YOU War correspondents have existed as long as war, and that is a very, very long time. Before modern war journalism, accounts were written at the end of a conflict, such as Thucydides … Continue reading →

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22 KINDA FUNNY, KINDA PAINFUL WRITING TIPS

Posted on November 13, 2013 by [email protected]

Before we set out as writers we imagine a life marlin fishing off our boat in Havana, or knocking out a leisurely sentence or two while swapping bon mots with French existentialists or just appearing on Oprah week after week … Continue reading →

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13 THINGS YOU MAY NOT KNOW ABOUT CHE GUEVARA

Posted on November 10, 2013 by [email protected]

We’ve all seen his face so many times, it’s almost as if we knew him personally. The iconic image of Marxist revolutionary Ernesto ‘Che’ Guevara is one of the world’s most objectified images, found on an endless array of t-shirts, … Continue reading →