Tasha’s Thinking Week: 26 November-2 December 2012
What has made me think this week. Benefits, sexism, Gaza and what talk about in social media. What’s made you think this week?
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Do teachers need to be good at spelling?
Do teachers need to be good at spelling? Is it a good idea for a school to hire proofreaders to spelling in reports?
Recipe for refried beans
My recipe for refried beans – vegan, vegetarian and low GI (and delicious, too).
Where do you get your news from?
Where do you get your news from? Do you have a main site for finding headlines and quick news facts and somewhere else for opinions? Do you keep it all to blogs and avoid the mainstream press?
Perfect autumn day
We had a perfect autumn day today.
Five Writing Tips, or How to Write a Great Short Story by Someone Who Never Has
Here are some writing tips from Jonathan Strahan, who edited Under My Hat, an excellent collection of witchy stories that we wrote about on Tuesday. So you want to write a short story? A great one? When I was first asked to provide a list of tips on how …
Show Your Fear!
This is a guest post from John Peace, author of The Calling. I opened my eyes with a sharp report reverberating through my dreams. My eyes were open in an almost total absence of light, with only the faintest outline of walls around me. Whatever that noise had been, my …
Interview with Jeyn Roberts
Jeyn Roberts has written a couple of awesome YA books, which we talked about on Tuesday. Dark Inside and Rage Within are post-apocalyptic novels, which race along, drawing you into a world of dark and evil, through the eyes of a cast of young characters fighting together to make sense …
Interview with Giles Paley-Phillips
Giles Paley-Phillips has written two monstrous picture books – which we talked about on Tuesday. Today he’s very kindly answered some questions about his writing. What made you want to write scary books for children? I grew up reading books by the Grimm brothers, Roald Dahl and Edward …
Halloween Book Week: Writing suspense and fear
Today is all about writing suspense and fear. Most fiction requires some suspense and often some fear, but of course some genres have a lot more of it than others – horror of course has bucketloads of both, while thrillers do too. I’ve mentioned already this week that I find …
