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Learning From Poets

I use poetry a lot in my teaching, but I don’t consider myself a poet and I don’t edit poetry as

I tend to shy away from judgements on published works on this blog (though not elsewhere!), but I thought I’d do

Texts on story structure are often recommended to writers with books in development: The Writer’s Journey, The Story Grid, Into

It’s been a while since I posted (I had to pause to remember my login). I have been busy

I’m tidying up my site (bear with me! one day maybe I shall understand how drop-down menus work their magic

To round out this short series of posts on editing, I want to add something on the occasions when writers

I returned last night from the Writers’ Workshop Festival of Writing in York, which as usual leaves me tired yet simultaneously full

This post continues a short series defining basic terms about editing and editorial processes with a look at proofreading. Following

This post continues this short series about different types of editing with a look at copyediting. Copyediting takes place after

SPOILERS. So Harper Lee’s new novel is out! Who’d have thought that?! I’ve always used To Kill A Mockingbird as

* I read the excellent Kent Haruf’s Our Souls At Night as well as this profile on the Making Of A Writer.

This week: * I continued to read Patricia Highsmith’s Plotting And Writing Suspense Fiction, which is first-rate and should be