Here, in the latest in his series "10 Things to Do," Nigel St. Faversham explores the options available to those of us struggling with a slow computer. Whether due simply to a full memory, or corrupted to oblivion with countless tics and viruses from the internet, a quick run-through our Top Ten will soon restore your love affair with the laptop, or at the very least keep that stroke at bay for ju...
Can't write? Can't muster up that urge of literary brilliance that adorns the page like a symphony of unwritten prose just waiting for ink to touch parchment.
Just write and go. The new Artificial Intelligent Intellectual Pen 3000 now with new improved Creative AI (tm). For all those moments when your feeble human brain says, "Fuck you higher functions! I ain't playing ball. I want to destroy...
Last August, I reviewed the iSpoof app and as a result it came to be the most popular app at The Spoof. This year, the makers of the iSpoof have developed the iIain.
G.T. Fox of All The Write Apps developed the iIain due to the increased populari...
Government and health officials are being urged to take action over safety issues relating to propelling pencils.
The call comes after a weekend when a local man "narrowly escaped death" while trying to replace the lead in his Yard-O-Led pencil.
Due to a deteriorating command of the English language it has been determined that punctuation is no longer required in any material to be put on line
It just confuses things said Don Caster head of English at Oxford University Nobody needs punctu...
In a week when it was announced that 130 million tweets per day are not worth reading - I feel its time to pay tribute to a leg-end of the 140 character club - step up to the plate Mr Joey 'seph' Barton, formerly of Mancester and Noocastle, now of Lundon.
Barton brings literatue to the masses. Many know him for his high jinx at christmas parties and nightclubs, some are even aware he performs o...
A few days ago top satire site, The Spoof, went off line for several hours because editor Mark Lowton made a few changes that will benefit the many readers of The Spoof. He added a Spoof in Your Font option.
Readers can choose the type of font t...
Great Yarmouth poet Ann Thology has just published yet another collection of verbose poetry.
Entitled "More Gushing", all the poems involve the central theme of overflowing phrases. Ann Thology's poetry is fully enriched with emotional outpouring...
The English language is to receive a massive overhaul in 2013, say experts from the Guild Of Dictionary Writers.
Spokesmen say that the language has become cluttered and over-complicated in recent years, with many new words being added and spellin...
All I wanted was some cheery music on the radio to ease my journey thru some sad traffic. My son told me about a radio station that was doing "all Christmas all the time", so like a sucker I tuned in. What a mistake.
The song White Christmas has always made me a little sad, but this new stuff made me suicidal. Hearing a song about a child wanting a pair of shoes for his mother because she s...
For several centuries English has been steadily losing the letter modifiers that help in their pronunciation of words. Naive is often written without the umlaut, facade has lost it's cedilla, role has been stripped of it's circumflex and cliche is qu...
When Rebekah Brooks's husband Charlie published his first book in 2009, David Cameron, Rupert Murdoch and Guy Ritchie attended the launch at Nincompoop, the West End nightclub.
The complex novel,called Fillies, covered a world Brooks knew well as...
A recent report suggests that prisoners who become interested in writing while in prison are much less likely to reoffend when they are released.
The Writers In Prison Network has published figures that suggest that inmates who participate in writ...
The history of writing the spoken word is a scientific discipline all to itself. It is widely agreed that the Egyptians and Chinese writing systems arose together through trade, and gave rise to two independent systems. The Phoenicians carried Egypti...
K. S. Trojan, famous author of "All Things Funny" is going after her alter ego for penning several pornographic poems without her knowledge or permission and publishing them under the name Krazy K.
Asked how Ms. Trojan noticed the poems or that t...
Unless they strike it rich like J. K. Rowling, writers can often find themselves strapped for cash. (Harry Potter! That was magic, right?) So here's a guaranteed, sure fire, money spinning idea. Are you ready for this? Okay, here it is: OPEN UP A MEN'S BARBER SHOP AND EMPLOY NAKED WOMEN TO CUT THEIR HAIR!
Take my word for it, in a few short hours the place will be packed solid. Bald men will b...
Notes from the Writers Fictional Retreat, Death Valley, CA. - Non-Fiction purports to be true in that it is the author's words, which they believe to be true. What if the author writes something that isn't true but rather fictional truth written intentionally to mislead? How can the reader determine if the fictional non-fiction is really fiction and not non-fiction?
Interesting questions, but...
Handicapped as a halfling after hitting his head on the haunches of a Hackney horse and then tossed to the hedges, Herkimer Heslop now holds high honors as an internationally heralded headline writer.
Handling his horrible childhood accident and h...