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  • Events,  Updates

    Crimescene WA & Real Scientists

    September 23, 2013 / No Comments

    I am really rather excited about the second week of October this year. Why? Well, the week starts on the 6th of October. And at midnight sharp on the 6th of October, I take over the @realscientists account on Twitter. The @realscientists account is curated/run each week by a scientist, science writer, science artist, science communicator, science illustrator… you get the idea. The aim of the project is to get more information about science, all sorts of science, out to the public. And I am part excited, part terrified, part nervous about taking over tweeting about what I do to do with science for a whole week. If you have…

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    July 2016 Writing Calendar

    July 1, 2016

    The Writing Calendar: June 2016

    June 9, 2016
  • Freelancing

    For the confused author/editor: Style sheets vs Style guides

    June 7, 2013 / 2 Comments

    What the hell is a style sheet?  Well, in computer lingo, it’s CSS or a cascading style sheet which tells you what everything on every HTML page of your website looks like design wise. It’s supposed to make it more efficient to create and design websites. But that’s not what you mean right?  No, it’s not. Say you are an author (fiction, non-fiction, corporate, government, whatever) and you send a document (your precious, your boss’ precious and so on) to an editor. And the editor sends the document back and a few others, one of which is this weird combination of the alphabet and square boxes. That little document is…

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    25+ ways I automate my workflow, or how I am trying to become a cyborg

    May 23, 2013

    How to network at an editors' conference

    January 14, 2013
  • How to write a book,  Projects,  Writing

    The writing process, step by step

    April 27, 2011 / 1 Comment

      We discussed the process of writing in the last post. This post is about the steps in writing a book and getting published. So the first one was about how to get started with writing as a hobby or getting used to writing in general process wise and this is about the process of writing, editing and publishing a particular book.

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    How to write a book: Part 1: Introduction

    September 25, 2013

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    April 13, 2011

    How do I get started?

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