Last week's Wikipedia blackout and journalist Johann Hari's decision not to return to 'The Independent' put plagiarism in the news. But plagiarism, imitation, forgery, flattery, call it what you will, the discipline of writing in the voice of another writer is a good way to find your own voice.
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Posts Tagged ‘ writing ’
Copycats
An interview with cartoonist Jacky Fleming
Jacky Fleming's illustrations and cartoons have regularly featured in The Guardian, Big Issue, New Statesman & Society and Independent on Sunday amongst many other publications, books of her cartoons published by Penguin and her work exhibited fa
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World book night
In case you've missed all the press coverage on this event, here's the premise in brief:
1,000,000 books are to be given away by 20,000 book lovers on Saturday 5th March. 35 books have been chosen, from which you can choose the book you would like
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Jacqueline Wilson talks about her career
As promised a few weeks ago here is another excerpt from the Jacqueline Wilson interview I filmed along with Livi Michael.
Here Jacqueline talks about her career from writing in exercise books as a young girl through her Tracey Beaker success
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Jane Rogers
Jane Rogers from Open College of the Arts on Vimeo.
Jane Rogers, Course Leader for Creative Writing was in the office last week, so we took the opportunity to ask her what she was working on and what she was reading. She had some intere
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Technology: friend or foe?
For my first post, I'm taking a tentative step into a quite divisive subject; the increasing domination of technology in our lives, specifically in relation to the arts. The fact that you're reading this on a computer screen might predetermine your o
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