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Should You Take The Job?

Today I led a session called Should You Take The Job? at a professional development day on Editing For Fiction organised by

How many times do we have to revisit this question of whether writing can be taught? Of course writing can be

Yesterday I book doctored at the Writers’ Workshop Getting Published Day at Regents College. It was a lot of fun. I

Lynda Barry sounds like one of those Americans I love to be around: a progressive hippie (I assume …) with a

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