How To Write Better with Suzan St Maur
All you need to write better, whatever you need to write
How to write better with Suzan
St Maur
a.k.a. Suze
Welcome! Here on How To Write Better, you'll learn how to improve your writing of...
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*and much more
... in more than 1,500 articles and tutorials by some of the English language's top writing experts. Find what you need in the SEARCH box top right and check out SUZE'S BOOKSHOP, too (on the tool bar.)
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Some great books to help you get 2019 off to a brilliant reading start:
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Potty-mouthed "adult" poems to have you laughing your head off - preferably in the downstairs toilet or bathroom...by yours truly Suzan St Maur.
Amazon bestseller every Holiday Season since 2001! This little book is a firm favourite with horsey families and makes the ideal gift for anyone who loves riding. Compiled by Suzan St Maur.
More potty-mouthed poetry - hilarious limericks that will make you think very differently about UK towns. By Lewis Williams of Corona Books fame.
Science fiction with a sense of humour - HitchHiker's Guide To The Galaxy, eat your heart out. Brilliant story of love, work, the future and other crazy stuff by award-winning playwright Keith Trezise.
The bittersweet story of a young boy being bullied by his best friend, and how an incredible magic pen makes them see how life really should be. By S. L. Powell. Age group 8-12 yrs.
Some of the English language world's finest new talent in science fiction - something for everyone's sci-fi tastes. Edited by Max Bantleman.
The first in Corona's series of new talent in the horror genre - stories from around the world that will make your brain tremble. Edited by Lewis Williams.
The second in the Corona series - more stark, scary stories to scare you silly on a winter's night. Don't turn all your lights off. Edited by Lewis Williams.
Books you'll love to read this winter - all available in print and on Kindle.
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Do you ever write snotty (i.e. pompous, patronising, condescending) words or phrases … I hope, by accident?Here are some remedies. And yes, you may well need them...
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It’s alarmingly easy to write stuff you think is precise and correct, only to find that as far as your target audience is concerned you come across as a pretentious old/young goat.Anyone fancy a trip to Costa Rica?
Welcome to The Right Place to Write 7-Day Costa Rica writer’s retreat! June 22 - 29, 2019.
Ever dream of getting away to write? Costa Rica is a perfect paradise setting for a writer’s retreat with ample time to write, reflect and learn with a dedicated team of publishing professionals to support, inspire and guide you. Expand your creativity while you enjoy breath-taking views of mountains, valleys, and ocean in one of the most bio-diverse regions on the planet! Everything a writer could ask for!
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Ever dream of getting away to write? Costa Rica is a perfect paradise setting for a writer’s retreat with ample time to write, reflect and learn with a dedicated team of publishing professionals to support, inspire and guide you. Expand your creativity while you enjoy breath-taking views of mountains, valleys, and ocean in one of the most bio-diverse regions on the planet! Everything a writer could ask for!
I’m the chief editor for The Right Place to Write! ✍🏻
If you know of someone who wants to write a book but needs help getting started, please share this with them.
Learn more at therightplacetowrite.com/
Another RIP – to author, bon viveur and good friend Sam Worthington
Today we heard that the blogger, author and one of my oldest friends Sam Worthington (no, not the actor – the original one) sadly passed away on November 11th in Angeles City, Philippines.
Sam had been a chef and publican (manager of pubs in the UK) for many years and also made it his business to review some of the best restaurants all around not the fanciest gourmet destinations necessarily, but good, honest restaurants across western and eastern Europe, the Far East and many other destinations.
For a list of all 12 articles in this series on how to write well to people dealing with death, bereavement and other life sadness, click here.
His reviews were sometimes critical, sometimes enthusiastic, but always fair.
Another book by Sam Worthington
His article here on HTWB led to him writing a short book called “How To Be A Savvy Restaurant Reviewer,” which was a very useful expansion and tutorial on how restaurant reviewers should go about doing their job properly.
I hope that this book will still be available now, after his passing. It shares his experience not only as a reviewer, but also as a chef and restaurant manager: a good balance between caring for the customer and understanding the real challenges of the catering industry.
Sam Worthington on politics and political correctness
Whether you loved them or hated them, Sam had some very powerful, interesting and always very controversial views on politics and government internationally.
You can check out some of his articles about his observations of world politics on this website of his, here. You may not like some of what he said, but you will like some of his logic.
And Sam Worthington, novelist
Sam also had a talent for picking up fiction ideas, often based on politics mixed with a bright creativity to make us think … perhaps a bit cynically … how our world could be shaped in the future.
You’ll find more about that on one of his websites, here.
I’m hoping that his family will keep this website going, not only in Sam’s memory, but also because everything Sam wrote was a “damned good read” and should be preserved.
Also, Sam Worthing, dyslexic
Yes, Sam was quite severely dyslexic.
When he was a school boy dyslexia wasn’t even a twinkle in the educational psychologists’ eyes, although in some private schools in the UK even back then some teachers were aware of it and helped pupils like Sam. He was lucky to attend one of those schools.
However much as there might have been some help, in Sam’s case it was his sheer grit and determination to write and share his thoughts that got him through his dyslexia and got him writing both fiction and nonfiction that so many of us have enjoyed.
Goodbye, Sam – we will never forget you
RIP to a brilliant friend and colleague.
Please share your condolences here with me, for his family, friends and fans.
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