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Help! How can we successfully launch an educational product for children...
Follow Dear HTWB Agony Columns My company makes and sells educational books, DVDs and other offline and online products for schools to use as projects and as a blended boost along with their regular...
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Help! How can I write really good reviews for TripAdvisor?
Follow Dear HTWB Agony Columns I want to start writing reviews for TripAdvisor as I love travel, vacations, eating out and all the other things they focus on. How can I write reviews that stand out...
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Help! How do I thank the family of my kidney donor?
Follow Dear HTWB Agony Columns My life has been saved by a kidney transplant, the donor being someone who sadly had died and was a good match for me. I am a long-term kidney patient who without a...
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Social media: why you should advise, not adVERTise
Follow Have you ever been guilty of confusing social media with free advertising? This guy did…here’s what he posted in the discussion thread of a locality group on one of the very large social media...
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Help! How do I train staff to write better local government reports?
Follow Hi Suze: Do you have any tips for writing ‘interesting’ reports for committees in a local government environment? I am doing some internal training in my local government department and am...
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Help! English past tenses are driving me nuts…
Follow English probably is the most insane language in the world. Its grammar is stuffed full of rules which we then have to break because of all the exceptions. It’s not surprising, then, that...
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Writing essays: what can we learn from nature?
Follow Here’s a question I was asked recently by a student, that really made me think: what can we write about of what we learn from nature? This was for an essay she was about to write. The business...
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“How can I become an author?” How we can help…
Follow This question is a lot harder to answer than it is to ask! However here is what I wrote in response to Amelia, who posted on the HTWB Facebook page asking “how can I become an author?” What...
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Help! English past tenses are driving me nuts…
Follow English probably is the most insane language in the world. Its grammar is stuffed full of rules which we then have to break because of all the exceptions. It’s not surprising, then, that...
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Writing essays: what can we learn from nature?
Follow Here’s a question I was asked recently by a student, that really made me think: what can we write about of what we learn from nature? This was for an essay she was about to write. The business...
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“How can I become an author?” How we can help…
Follow This question is a lot harder to answer than it is to ask! However here is what I wrote in response to Amelia, who posted on the HTWB Facebook page asking “how can I become an author?” What...
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How do I get published on writing about autism?
Autism: a heart-rending issue for families and one that seems to be increasing by the day. Here, in our Agony Columns series, we look at a real case of someone who has asked me (Suze) for help in...
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Search engines: how you have murdered the art of copywriting
At one time, advertising copywriters were almost the most important people in the ad business. Today, copywriting is offered as a side dish on most VAs‘ admin menus. Professional freelance copywriters...
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Writing to someone who just lost a loved one
If you are on the point of facing the loss of a loved one, or just have, or you know someone who is doing so … you might find this blank verse poem helpful. No matter what a loved one has or will have...
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Letter from the doctor: can you understand this awful jargon?
An Agony Column email from Emma in Gloucestershire, England brought this pearl of gobbledegook to my attention this week…what are these doctors on? Read on and be gobsmacked… Dear Suze Having an attack...
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Diary of a self-isolator: to-do list for when COVID’s all over
What plans do you have when this COVID pandemic is finally over? I’ve jotted down some ideas for my own, er, intentions … and please do add your own thoughts into the comments. When this sh*t is over I...
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What to write when someone has lost their job due to coronavirus
One of the most popular articles here on HTWB for the last four years has been “What to write when someone has lost their job.” As you know, at the moment (May 2020) this has become even more of an...
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Black lives don’t just “matter.” They are our world. Like all other “colours”...
So, so sad for George Floyd and his family and friends: with love and fondest condolences from me and HTWB. Suze. Racism is a poison. Please help destroy that poison. George and many others like you in...
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Remember, remember what they wrote about the 5th of November: BUT keep us all...
. This year in the UK and a number of other countries, we won’t be allowed to have lavish outdoor fire pits or bonfires or BBQs in honour of celebrating Guy Fawkes’ embarrassing failure to blow up the...
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