Category Archives: writing course

writing course – yes, but was it any good?

Posted on February 12, 2015 by pat thomson

Now that the intensive eight days writing course are over, it’s interesting to reflect on what happened. What might count as success? What went right/wrong? How do we know what to do differently next time? These are not abstract questions. … Continue reading →

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writing course day two

Posted on April 4, 2013 by pat thomson

We began today by looking at the abstract again – the Tiny Text – and then went on to think about titles. After some paired discussion of the potential titles and a bit of work on some volunteers’ abstracts and … Continue reading →

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I’m running a writing course…

Posted on April 1, 2013 by pat thomson

This afternoon I head off to Iceland to run a short writing course. I’ve decided that I’m going to blog about it as it happens. So rather than there being two posts this week, there will in fact be five … Continue reading →