Category Archives: 26

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The game of the name

By tim | Published: 06/07/2010

A good name rolls the most relevant points about the organisation or thing or activity into one word or phrase. It’s a linguistic roulade. When something is tough to name it’s often because the proposition isn’t clear and compelling. You can’t create a meaningful, memorable name unless there’s something meaningful and memorable to convey.

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Making every word tell

By tim | Published: 24/06/2010

Without confidence in your audience you can’t produce writing with personality.

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Blake Morrison

By tom | Published: 01/05/2010

“When you spend all day working with words, sometimes you can articulate things that others are feeling in a way that a dry political approach cannot. That is the role of the creative writer, the poet, and the novelist. They can engage at the human level, touch people, move people and inspire people to take [...]

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26:50 — Free to write

By tim | Published: 14/04/2010

26:50 is a remarkable creative partnership between two organisations – the writers’ group 26 and International PEN – marking 50 years of the International PEN Writers in Prison committee. Fifty UK-based writers (all members of 26) were given 50 words to write about one of Pen’s emblematic cases – authors who have been persecuted for their words [...]

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