Monthly Archives: April 2007

BBC Online courses

The BBC still have available various short self-study online courses. They include several in creative writing. Of course, a “real” course like Season of Inspiration, with tutors and fellow students to feedback on the exercises and writing, is much more useful than self-study, but until we announce the next Season

Comment is free?

Jonathan Freedland in The Guardian argues that The blogosphere risks putting off everyone but point-scoring males While “censorship” is never going to work, the idea of an online reputation is already important. I am very aware that anything I write – whether here in this blog, or on my work