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I asked Claude to convert a pdf flyer into an HTML format I could insert into a Markdown block in Squarespace. Here’s the result:

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Write Like You
Mean It

Creative writing courses by Terry Freedman — City Lit, London 2026

Three Courses · All Levels · Write from the Very First Session
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  <div class="tf-course-head">
    <span class="tf-num">01</span>
    <span class="tf-ctitle">Writing Using Constraints</span>
  </div>
  <p class="tf-meta">[ One-day workshop ]</p>
  <div class="tf-tags">
    <span class="tf-tag">Oulipo</span>
    <span class="tf-tag">Lipograms</span>
    <span class="tf-tag">Queneau</span>
    <span class="tf-tag">Experimental writing</span>
  </div>
  <p class="tf-blurb">Rules that set you free. An intensive day exploring the Oulipo &mdash; the literary movement that turned constraints into creative rocket fuel. Lipograms, univocalics, style rewrites, and more.</p>
  <a class="tf-link" href="https://tinyurl.com/tfoulipo" target="_blank" rel="noopener">tinyurl.com/tfoulipo</a>
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  <div class="tf-course-head">
    <span class="tf-num">02</span>
    <span class="tf-ctitle">The 60-Minute Writer</span>
  </div>
  <p class="tf-meta">[ 11 weekly sessions ]</p>
  <div class="tf-tags">
    <span class="tf-tag">Voice</span>
    <span class="tf-tag">Dialogue</span>
    <span class="tf-tag">Memoir</span>
    <span class="tf-tag">Experimental forms</span>
  </div>
  <p class="tf-blurb">Every session, you write. No long lectures. No waiting. Just words on the page from the very first lesson &mdash; and a growing sense of what you can do.</p>
  <a class="tf-link" href="https://tinyurl.com/tf60min" target="_blank" rel="noopener">tinyurl.com/tf60min</a>
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  <div class="tf-course-head">
    <span class="tf-num">03</span>
    <span class="tf-ctitle">Writing for Blogs</span>
  </div>
  <p class="tf-meta">[ One full day &middot; Jul or Nov 2026 ]</p>
  <div class="tf-tags">
    <span class="tf-tag">Platform</span>
    <span class="tf-tag">Audience</span>
    <span class="tf-tag">Ideas</span>
    <span class="tf-tag">Promotion</span>
  </div>
  <p class="tf-blurb">Find your voice, find your audience, get started. From blank page to blog plan &mdash; you leave with ideas, a reader profile, and the confidence to publish.</p>
  <a class="tf-link" href="https://tinyurl.com/tfwfblogs" target="_blank" rel="noopener">tinyurl.com/tfwfblogs</a>
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What You’ll Cover

Writing Using Constraints

  • What is the Oulipo?
  • Lipograms & univocalics
  • Queneau’s style rewrites
  • N+7 & snowball poems
  • Transformations
  • Design your own rules

The 60-Minute Writer

  • Point of view & voice
  • Memoir & subversion
  • Vibrant verbs
  • Magic metaphors
  • Dynamic dialogue
  • Erasure & story machines

Writing for Blogs

  • Why blog & where
  • Audience & personas
  • Generating ideas
  • Structure & format
  • Images & illustration
  • Promotion tactics

“Oulipians are rats who construct the labyrinth from which they plan to escape.”

Raymond Queneau — basis of the Writing Using Constraints course

Terry Freedman

Terry Freedman is a writer, educator, and the person behind writersknowhow.org. He has been teaching creative writing at City Lit for years, running courses that are rigorous, surprising, and genuinely fun. His writing and teaching draw on experimental literature, constraint-based methods, and a conviction that everyone has a voice worth developing.

How to Book  //  All courses at City Lit, Keeley Street, London WC2B 4BA.
Book at citylit.ac.uk  ·  Small groups  ·  All levels welcome  ·  No experience needed

© Terry Freedman 2026

Well, I didn’t like that much, so I neserted it into a Code block instead — which is what it said to do in the first place! Here’s the result:

Write Like You
Mean It

Creative writing courses by Terry Freedman — City Lit, London 2026

Three Courses · All Levels · Write from the Very First Session
01 Writing Using Constraints

[ One-day workshop ]

Oulipo Lipograms Queneau Experimental writing

Rules that set you free. An intensive day exploring the Oulipo — the literary movement that turned constraints into creative rocket fuel. Lipograms, univocalics, style rewrites, and more.

tinyurl.com/tfoulipo
02 The 60-Minute Writer

[ 11 weekly sessions ]

Voice Dialogue Memoir Experimental forms

Every session, you write. No long lectures. No waiting. Just words on the page from the very first lesson — and a growing sense of what you can do.

tinyurl.com/tf60min
03 Writing for Blogs

[ One full day · Jul or Nov 2026 ]

Platform Audience Ideas Promotion

Find your voice, find your audience, get started. From blank page to blog plan — you leave with ideas, a reader profile, and the confidence to publish.

tinyurl.com/tfwfblogs

What You’ll Cover

Writing Using Constraints

  • What is the Oulipo?
  • Lipograms & univocalics
  • Queneau’s style rewrites
  • N+7 & snowball poems
  • Transformations
  • Design your own rules

The 60-Minute Writer

  • Point of view & voice
  • Memoir & subversion
  • Vibrant verbs
  • Magic metaphors
  • Dynamic dialogue
  • Erasure & story machines

Writing for Blogs

  • Why blog & where
  • Audience & personas
  • Generating ideas
  • Structure & format
  • Images & illustration
  • Promotion tactics

“Oulipians are rats who construct the labyrinth from which they plan to escape.”

Raymond Queneau — basis of the Writing Using Constraints course

Terry Freedman

Terry Freedman is a writer, educator, and the person behind writersknowhow.org. He has been teaching creative writing at City Lit for years, running courses that are rigorous, surprising, and genuinely fun. His writing and teaching draw on experimental literature, constraint-based methods, and a conviction that everyone has a voice worth developing.

How to Book  //  All courses at City Lit, Keeley Street, London WC2B 4BA.
Book at citylit.ac.uk  ·  Small groups  ·  All levels welcome  ·  No experience needed

© Terry Freedman 2026

It didn’t include the graphics I had inserted. These were a photograph and some speech balloons. I daresay I could have tweaked the code to make that happen, but you know, life’s too short!

If you would like to see the pdf flyer, click the button below. And if you’re reading this before 13 June 2026, there are still some places left on the course!