Grammar, spelling, pedantry and preference
The BBC have launched an online grammar test, to tell you if you are a grammar guru, a promising pedant, or a colon confusenik — all…
The BBC have launched an online grammar test, to tell you if you are a grammar guru, a promising pedant, or a colon confusenik — all…
I once dumped a boyfriend who wasn’t expecting it, and he scuttled over to his sister, threw himself at her fridge, and wailed for an hour.…
One man’s meat: Which writing competitions should you enter?
What’s a typical debut novel advance?
Who are all these people?
I don’t know if I can do this — fiction without rules
…gods, sharks, and salt.
Six weeks to the summer solstice; they will fly, and then we will be into darkening evenings. Before we know it, 2013 will be over. I…
I’ve dropped some flowers onto the blog.
A flurry of tweets arrived last night, from people who had, at the “last minute”, managed to submit a story to this year’s Bristol Prize. I’ve…
F Scott Fitzgerald’s ledger has been digitally scanned and made available online by the University of South Carolina, reports an article in Newser. It’s lovely to…