About Me – ALISON JANET BROWN

Is unsolicited advice always criticism?

This week:
• I focus on the word ‘unsolicited’
• I have grown up with this
• I suggest a way to make sure your advice is solicited

Choosing your genre as a reader

This week, defining your genre as a reader:
• Means you know yourself well
• Can close you off from finding other things you love
• Will help you avoid things that annoy or trigger you

Why join a Writing Circle?

This week, I reveal that writing circles:
• Can actually help you improve your writing
• Are very variable in tone
• Can host a range of events for writers

Why your English Teacher didn’t want you to write ‘said’

This week:
• Teachers actually do their jobs
• Language changes according to your purpose
• There is teacher-me and writer-me

My 3 Favourite podcasts about writing and what you’ll learn from them

This week, writing podcasts can be:
• As long as a piece of string
• Chuckle-worthy
• Heaven on a hat stand

Six reasons to listen to writing podcasts

This week, listening to writing podcasts:
• Is an affordable way to develop craft
• Makes me part of a writing community
• Builds my enthusiasm for writing

How to tell genre-snobs to f- off in 3 glorious phases

This week:
• I am not happy that I was genre-shamed
• It takes me less than a minute to think of three examples of fantasy in ‘great classic literature’
• It’s weird boiling Hamlet down to ‘man is haunted by the ghost of his murdered father until he goes on a homicidal rampage’

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