How Do You Do How-to? By Lorraine Mace - Expert Writing Advice from The Writers Bureau

This month we have expert advice from Lorraine Mace on the wonderful world of how-to articles, Ten Top Tips shows you how to illustrate your work and the benefits it can bring – you’ll be shocked! Plus, we’ve the usual mix of inspiring student stories, events, inspiration and useful websites.

Could you use any of these events to create an interesting article? This month you should be planning for submission in November.

Inspiration

1st November	All Saints’ Day.
2nd November 1960	A verdict of not guilty is passed in the trial of Penguin books who had been accused of obscenity for Lady Chatterley’s Lover.
3rd November 1913	The USA introduces Income Tax.
4th November 1936	American anti-war poet CK Williams is born in Newark, New Jersey. See below for a link to CK Williams.
5th November 1971	Radiohead guitarist Jonny Greenwood is born.
6th November 1528	Alvar Nunez Cabeza De Vaca becomes the first known European to set foot in Texas after being shipwrecked off the coast.
7th November 1991	Magic Johnson retires from the NBA after revealing that he is HIV positive.
8th November 1896	The wonderfully named American baseball player Bucky Harris is born in Port Jervis, New York.
9th November 1985	Gary Kasparov becomes the world’s youngest chess champion beating Anatoly Karpov at the age of 22.
10th November	Day of Remembrance of Ataturk – Turkey.
11th November	Remembrance Day in the Commonwealth of Nations.
12th November 1933	The first pictures of the Loch Ness Monster are taken by Hugh Gray.
13th November 1971	Mariner 9, an American space probe, becomes the first to orbit another planet successfully when it moves into position around Mars.
14th November	World Diabetes Day.
15th November	A rite of passage for 3 and 7 year old girls and 3 and 5 year old boys named Shichi-Go-San takes place in Japan.
16th November	International Day for Tolerance.
17th November 1970	The first patent for a computer mouse is received by Douglas Englebart.
18th November	International Philosophy Day.
19th November	International Men’s Day.
20th November 1985	Microsoft Windows V1 is released.
21st November 1694	French philosopher Voltaire is born in Paris.
22nd November 2005	The first female chancellor of Germany is elected – Angela Merkel.
23rd November 1976	Jaques Mayol is the first person to reach a depth of 100m without the use of breathing equipment.
24th November	Evolution Day – to commemorate the first publication of the origin of the species.
25th November 2005	World famous Irish footballer George Best dies aged just 58.
26th November 1778	Captain James Cooke becomes the first European to visit Maui in the Hawaiian Islands.
27th November 2005	Amiens, France sees the first completed partial human face transplant.
28th November 1919	Lady Astor becomes the first woman to take her seat in the House of Commons.
29th November 1972	The first commercially successful video game – Pong – is released by its creator Nolan Bushnell in California.
30th November 1934	The Flying Scotsman is recognised as the first locomotive to reach 100mph.

It is not often I mention a poet who’s still alive in the Inspiration section but, when I do I try to find a recording so that you can listen to the poems read in the manner intended by the poets themselves. So, here’s CK Williams reciting at a Technology, Entertainment, Design (TED) conference. If you want to be like CK Williams you should enrol on our Poetry Writing Course. The assignments are open so you are always able to choose what you write your poetry about and your work is marked by experienced poets Alison Chisholm and Lorraine Mace.

I know you’ve concentrated long and hard to take in all the lovely information I’ve given you. So, take five minutes (or 35 if you’re like me) to play Enigmata Genus Revenge, a classic addictive space invaders game, and give your brain a rest.

And finally, if you found something of use to you in this issue please pass the word on to all your writer friends – and even those who don’t! You never know, you might inspire them to take it up. They can sign up here.

Until next month farewell and do lots of writing!

Shelley x

P.S. Don’t forget the 21st Birthday Celebration and Poetry and Short Story Writing Competitions.

As usual, if you've any suggestions or would like to comment on anything you have read then please contact me at: ezeewriter@writersbureau.com

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