Do you feel you need to account for every moment and movement in a scene? I’ve found a lot of new writers do. But look at this extract from Emily Bitto’s beautiful novel ‘The Strays’.
Two-minute tip: check your spell check settings
spell check is a handy but fickle friend – useful but not to be totally relied upon, especially if the settings are not quite right.
Two hot tips for picking up typos in your own work
I recently published a post with an embarrassing error: who’s instead of whose. How did I let this happen and how can I help you avoid doing the same?
You’ve written your first draft. Now what?
Woo hoo! You did it! You’ve written your first draft. So what’s next? The first thing to do is feel super smug and a wee…