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Improving Your Writing.

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If you’re a writer and serious about improving your craft, there are various ways you can accomplish this. 10. Get an Assessment/Edit There are experts out there who offer this … Continued

Some random writing tips.

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Trying to write but can’t get started? Or it’s just not working? Here’s some random tips to consider. 1. It’s all right. As has already been mentioned in this blog, … Continued

Dealing with Rejection.

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Possibly the most difficult thing any writer has to deal with is rejection. It’s something we all face, and it never gets easier. Unless you have the clout of a … Continued

First Drafts: Part 2.

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Over the next two weeks I’m running the same blog about first drafts. Last week’s blog was my unabridged first draft. This week’s blog is the same blog, but revised. … Continued

First Dafts: Part 1.

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This we Over the next two weeks I’m going to run the same blog about first drafts..  The first blog will be my unabridged first draft, replete with typos and … Continued

Punctuation: Part 1.

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I love punctuation. There’s obvious punctuation (and punctuating) you learn in primary school: e.g. full stops, commas, exclamation marks, question marks, the apostrophe, and quotation marks. Bizarrely, in primary school … Continued

The Great Novella Search.

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What do George Orwell’s Animal Farm, John Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men, Ernest Hemmingway’s The Old Man and the Sea, Albert Camus’s The Stranger, and Franz Kafka’s The Metamorphosis all … Continued