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Good Stuff for Writers. Phone 0433 263 006. The process of writing. Proofreading tips and symbols for supervisors. February 11, 2015. Written by Sandra Hogan. This post answers a request from supervisors at the Department of Science, Information Technology, Information and the Arts (DSITIA) who were looking for tips on proofreading for their teams. I hope it helps! Many people spend a long time writing a first draft of their documents and five minutes checking spelling and grammar at the end. Is where yo...
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Writing matters Archives - Good Stuff for Writers
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Good Stuff for Writers. Phone 0433 263 006. The process of writing. September 18, 2014. Written by Sandra Hogan. In the fifteenth century, people used to keep books called Zibaldone, or hodgepodge books. They were scrapbooks of interesting facts and quotes from great writers. At the time, many people quoted Dante Alighieri. (Today, no doubt, they would quote Eckhart Tolle and Stephen King.). It’s not a journal. It’s not morning pages. I have written morning pages a la Julia Cameron for years on end and, ...
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Good Stuff for Writers. Phone 0433 263 006. The process of writing. Hi I’m Sandra Hogan. I have two writing lives, with a website for each. If you’re looking for the corporate writer and trainer, you can find her here. But if you stay here with me now, you are with the person whose hobby is lying in bed reading novels and who occasionally leaps up excitedly to find a pencil and jot down a great idea for an article or a story. Download your free copy of Why writing matters here. This is for people who wan...
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Good Stuff for Writers. Phone 0433 263 006. The process of writing. Write instructions or procedures. March 2, 2015. Written by Sandra Hogan. Here are five principles to follow:. Think about your audience. Use direct, bossy language for each step. Use numbers where order is important, bullets otherwise. Think about your audience. Yes they may be well educated and used to instructions. But, being modern humans, they’re also probably tired, busy, anxious and would prefer to be doing something else. Explain...
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The process of writing - Good Stuff for Writers
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Good Stuff for Writers. Phone 0433 263 006. The process of writing. The process of writing. Canadian writer Margaret Atwood once asked a medical student what it was like inside a human body. The medical student replied: ‘It’s dark in there.’. Negotiating with the Dead,. Atwood said that writing also has to do with darkness, and a desire or perhaps a compulsion to enter it and, with luck, to illuminate it, and to bring something back out to the light. But that doesn’t have to mean it’s a slow, agonising p...
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Apostrophes: an overview - Good Stuff for Writers
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Good Stuff for Writers. Phone 0433 263 006. The process of writing. September 14, 2014. Written by Sandra Hogan. Why did everyone stay away from the Giant Kid’s Playground? Because they were afraid of the giant kid, of course. This is one of the many apostrophe jokes in Lyn Truss’s classic punctuation text,. Eats, Shoots and Leaves. Which is so endearing that it became a bestseller when it was first published in 2003. If it’s a singular noun, add an apostrophe and an ‘s’. Also add an apostrophe and an ’s...
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Good Stuff for Writers. Phone 0433 263 006. The process of writing. The Second Sex … recycled. September 10, 2014. Written by Sandra Hogan. When my father had a book that my mother didn’t think was suitable for children, she covered it with brown paper, to disguise it on the bookshelf. As a result of this helpful strategy, my sister and I were able to quickly identify illicit material and work our way through the small collection. Our favourites were. Ideal Marriage: Its Physiology and Technique. When I ...
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Watch your tenses - Good Stuff for Writers
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Good Stuff for Writers. Phone 0433 263 006. The process of writing. March 2, 2015. Written by Sandra Hogan. When people with English as their first language ask me for help with tenses, it usually means they have been corrected at work for switching tenses. For example, they have switched from past to present tense in one sentence like this:. When I wrote this sentence, I am thinking of something else. So the writer tries hard to write consistently in the same tense and finds they are in trouble again:.
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Writers and books Archives - Good Stuff for Writers
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Good Stuff for Writers. Phone 0433 263 006. The process of writing. Kristina Olsson takes all. September 25, 2014. Written by Sandra Hogan. Queensland writer Kristina Olsson has just added the West Australian Premier’s award. For a non-fiction book to the swag of prizes she has received for her moving memoir. Olsson talks about how the book has changed her life in t. N The Saturday Paper. SEP 6, 2014. Kristina Olsson: Lost and found. Kristina Olsson’s memoir. It is Jeanette Winterson, talking about the r...
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Overcome writer's block - Good Stuff for Writers
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Good Stuff for Writers. Phone 0433 263 006. The process of writing. Overcome writer’s block. September 12, 2014. Written by Sandra Hogan. This is for people who want to overcome writer’s block. They have a head full of knowledge but they can’t start writing. They stare at the computer until it’s embarrassing. Then they go out for coffee, and then repeat the cycle several times. Sylvia Plath used to bake cakes when she couldn’t get started. I eat them. Bird by Bird,. Dillard’s famous cure for not being ab...
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