Summer is here – warm, lazy days, extra wine, days out with the family and friends, a holiday away. But when the temperature is persistently over 30C, I tend to wilt. Yesterday reached 39C in the shade. My Muse has gone for a protracted lie down somewhere in a cool cave several metres underground.
Enter […]
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Love it or hate it, Amazon, is now part of our lives. Even if we prioritise buying local, we slip into the seductive single click of buying online from the world’s biggest universal supplier.
As part of the popular antipathy to large corporates prevalent in the digiverse at present (for a […]
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Writing as a life choice isn’t easy. It’s actually a bit mad. But those who have the urge just can’t stop.
However, everybody will give you advice and I suppose I’m doing the same here. 🙂
Not advice about punctuation, dialogue or how to set the scene or bring characters to life – that’s craft […]
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When I started this scribbling business in 2009, I sat down one morning in front of my computer and typed for ninety days.
As a professional translator, I knew I would have to edit anything I produced. I joined a writers’ group and survived the terror of reading my offering aloud for the first time […]
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Source: The Apostrophe Protection Society
Briefly, possession and omission. Yep, it’s that easy.
People get very hot under the collar about apostrophes, me included. First my mother, then my wonderful English teachers – Mrs Campbell and Miss Robson – eradicated any nonsense about misuse out of me at an early age. Like other […]
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