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…
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Highly commended in 2012
A big thank you to Writers’ Forum Magazine for shortlisting/highly commending my stories in Issue #122 (January 2012), Issue #126 (May 2012) and Issue #135 (Jan 2013). ISSN…
The Monkey Poo of the Writing World
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
There is no suncream in my story, only sweat
…gods, sharks, and salt.
Six weeks to the summer solstice
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…
Flowery prose
I’ve dropped some flowers onto the blog.
From the sublime…
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
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…
