I’ve been thinking recently about mistakes I make in my own writing and I’ve come up with five I find myself making over and over again. The first is the use of the metaphor, simile or other figure of speech which you see and hear all around you. Occasionally I’ll find myself writing phrases like [...]
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Received a question the other day about the necessity of obtaining permission if you refer to a particular product in your novel or short story and for most of us the answer is a simple No. Let’s take a look at a particular event. Jack is driving down the road in his new Ferrari when [...]
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It’s a tough world out there, a frightening world for creative writers. Have you ever been nervous about showing your latest short story or poem to someone, maybe a member of your group, maybe to your partner or boyfriend or girlfriend well don’t think you’re the only one on the planet who suffers from this [...]
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Some style guides recommend using en dashes in place of hyphens for a wide variety of uses, but The Chicago Manual of Style, the guidebook of record for most American publishing companies, advises a more limited set of applications. According to Chicago style, these sentences would all be written with hyphens, not en dashes: “He [...]
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Normally we are writing here about creative writing but it occurred to me that a short paragraph or two on business writing would not go amiss. Why business writing when we are about creative writing. Well there are times when we need to be able to leave the creative behind and be practical, for example [...]
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