posts on writing
Yesterday, Jennifer Fallon, an Aussie fantasy writer whose books I’ve enjoyed very much, wrote a blog post entitled 10 things authors should never talk about. A lot of the points make perfect sense. I mean – if you expect to have any kind of business relationship with people in the…
One of the features of slush and poorly-edited self-published works is poor punctuation. In particular the poor semicolon takes a beating. Here are two simple truths about semicolons, and they are all you absolutely need to know about them: The best and most fail-safe way to use a semicolon is……
Hmm. I haven’t yet made two posts in any single day, but an issue came up on Twitter that I absolutely have to say something about. It’s a typographical issue, about which I can speak with a bit of authority, since I have done layout work both for books and…
following yesterday’s post about writing workshops, there was some discussion, mainly at other venues, about the value of writers’ circles and crit groups in general. There was some talk about writing ‘rules’ as taught in creative writing courses, and whether or not they have any merit. I adhere to the…
