How to Simplify Word Document Formatting With Styles by Tuts+ Computer Skills
YouYube Link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sInY5t7cS_k
The Frailty of Memory - "When I was younger I could remember anything, whether it happened or not; but I am getting old, and soon I shall remember only the latter" - Mark Twain, a Biography
Thursday, June 1, 2023
Wednesday, May 31, 2023
Scribblings #6
ChatGPT and AI: Creating Magical Bedtime Stories for Kids — Part 1
A Step-by-Step Guide to Writing, Cover Designing, and
Publishing a Children’s Storybook with Artificial Intelligence on Your Side
https://clydedz.medium.com/chatgpt-and-ai-creating-magical-bedtime-stories-for-kids-part-1-7a25566509e1
Writing a Memoir: How to Craft a Compelling Story
This is one of the better articles that I have found on the subject of Memoir.
- Writing a memoir is all about learning how to tell a compelling story based on a real-life story structure that took place, but in a way that attracts the reader's attention.
StrikeTheWriteTone.Com
This blog contains some of the best advice I have found on
Memoir writing. Check out the various posts on the subject.
· A memoir is not the recounting of stuff that happened to you. Stuff happens to everybody. A proper memoir must contain reflection. . . . No meaning, no memoir. No transcendence, no memoir. No takeaway for the reader, no memoir.
https://www.strikethewritetone.com/blog
Blog
Visit my
Blogs at – apmablog.blogspot.com and verseandwords.blogspot.com
Thursday, May 25, 2023
Microsoft Office legally and for FREE includes Word, Powerpoint, Excel and One Note
It is possible to use Microsoft Office legally and for FREE by accessing a cloud version through Office.com follow the link below for instructions. The cloud version of Office includes Word, Powerpoint, Excel and OneNote. All you need is a Microsoft Account which is free and does not require Credit Card details. The only thing you need to use it is to be connected to the Internet.
https://www.zdnet.com/article/how-to-get-microsoft-office-for-free/
Word is also available as an app on iPhone, iPad and Android phones and Tablets. Find in the App Store.
How to use Heading Styles in Microsoft Word
Below are three useful links to articles on the subject of formatting pages and styles
in Microsoft Word
https://erinwrightwriting.com/how-to-use-microsoft-word/
https://proofed.co.uk/writing-tips/heading-styles-in-microsoft-word/
https://www.howtogeek.com/399978/how-to-change-heading-styles-in-ms-word/
Thursday, May 4, 2023
Scribblings… #4
Memoir
Everyone has
a book in them, it’s said, but as Martin Amis noted in his memoir Experience
(2000), what everyone seems to have in them “is not a novel but a memoir …
An
interesting article in the Guardian about Memoir published in 2019 but worth a
read…
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/dec/14/the-naked-truth-how-to-write-a-memoir
Words for the Day
Abecedarian
(adj) Alphabetically arranged
Abecedarian
(noun) A novice learning the rudiments of some subject
Abecedarian
(noun) a 16th Century sect of Anabaptists centred in Germany who
had an absolute disdain for knowledge
Abecedarius –
A special form of acrostic in which the first letters or strophe or verse
follows the order of the letters in the alphabet – A, B, C…
Strophe - A strophe (/ˈstroʊfiː/) is a poetic term originally referring to the first part of the ode in Ancient Greek tragedy, followed by the antistrophe and epode. The term has been extended to also mean a structural division of a poem containing stanzas of varying line length. Strophic poetry is to be contrasted with poems composed line-by-line non-stanzaically, such as Greek epic poems or English blank verse, to which the term stichic applies.
Library
Check out Pressreader
for accessing newspapers, magazines and more online
- Press Reader offers thousands of national, provincial, and global newspapers with 90 days of back issues.
- Newspapers from over 100 countries in 60 languages can be read in your browser on any device.
- A range of popular magazines is also available
- To gain free access click 'Sign in', use the 'Library or Group' button, search 'Lancashire' and enter you library card number. See how to sign in.
- This will give you 30 days free access which can be continually renewed by signing in again.
- Apps are also available for you to read on your phone or tablet - Get the app (external link)
- Find out more about using PressReader in our library academy (external link)
- Podcasts etc
An interesting Joanna Penn Blog post and Podcast - The
Tools And Services I Use In My Author Business
https://www.thecreativepenn.com/2023/04/07/the-tools-and-services-i-use-in-my-author-business/
Wednesday, May 3, 2023
The naked truth: how to write a memoir - A Guardian Article
...Everyone has a book in them, it’s said, but as Martin Amis noted in his memoir Experience (2000), what everyone seems to have in them “is not a novel but a memoir …
Extract
How to write a memoir
1 Grab the reader’s attention from the off You can’t hit us with everything at once. You don’t even need to start with a major episode. But you do have to draw us in, establish a voice and hint at what lies ahead.
2 Put us there Make us see, hear, smell, taste and touch. In general use dialogue rather than reported speech. If the episode is vivid to you, make it vivid to us.
3 Dramatise yourself as the narrator It’s not compulsory to be confessional, but as our guide you should let us get to know you a little. You’re a character too.
4 Be strict about point of view If you’re writing from the vantage point of a child, create a voice that sounds like a child (in tone and perception if not vocabulary).
5 Choose your tense carefully The present tense will create immediacy but can inhibit measured reflection. The past tense is the more obvious choice but can seem too sedate and tidy. You may need both.
6 Remember God is in the detail The stronger our impression of something happening to a particular person at a particular time in a particular place, the greater our sense of recognition.
7 Use the same storytelling devices that novelists use – plot, character, voice, motif and structure There has to be development, a reason to read on. A sense of style, too: just because it’s non-fiction doesn’t mean it can’t be “literary”.
8 Give signposts Find ways to help the reader along, especially if you have a complex plot and a large cast list. You’re our guide and we need to be able to follow you – and to trust you to tell us the truth.
9 Be surprising Work against the material. The reader will bring her own experience to it, so allow for that. Don’t be afraid to find humour round a death-bed, say, or tenderness amid misery and abuse.
10 Pace the story It can’t be all showing and no telling. You may need to spend 30 pages on the events of an hour – then speed through 25 years in two pages. Be bold with chronology. Find ways to keep us interested. We’re in your hands.
An interesting article in the Guardian about Memoir published in 2019 but worth a read…
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/dec/14/the-naked-truth-how-to-write-a-memoir
AI Image Creation
Test image created in Dall-E, using Microsoft Bing Image Creator with the prompt: Young boy with dirty face playing in Liverpool docklands impressionistic.
It can take a bit of experimenting with terminology and sense to ensure you are talking the same language as Bing, and you can tweak images with the subtle change of a word or two.
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