Well! That! Is! A lot of exclaiming!

Here’s my take on the never ending debate over our friend the exclamation mark. Personally, I find comments such as ‘never use it’ insane. Advice to use it three times at most in 100,000 words (Elmore Leonard) – impossible!   So, here’s a simple rule I use – maybe you can too.   If, at […]

So much help for new writers!

How Dickens or Shakespeare ever learnt their craft without podcasts, retreats, blog posts, a kindle … well the mind boggles. Today there is such a wealth of help out there, and reflection on literature between authors and readers, that this is bound to bode well for the future of writing. It’s a cliché (oops … […]