Yearly Archives: 2013

Spring comes to Oxford

(Wrote this in February but didn’t publish it. So I thought I might as well. In fact, spring didn’t really come to Oxford till this week. I’ll try and do a catch-up piece soon.) It’s sunny and the Thames is sparkling. My writing this morning isn’t. On St Valentines Day I got no cards or ... Read More
 

Self criticism and Autocrit

Don’t we all want unbiased feedback? What could be less biased than a computer programme? Autocrit tells you how many times you’ve used the same word or phrase, how many -ly adverbs,  how many cliches. It counts words per line so that you can see whether you have a nice varied collection of sentences. And ... Read More