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It’s Show (and Tell) Time!
“Show, don’t tell” is something of a mantra for fiction writers. Here’s an example of both: Telling: “Close the door,” she said nervously. Showing: Her cigarette trembled in her hand: “Close the door.”...
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Clean up clutter
Clean up clutter There aren’t any rules in creative writing but…. there kind of are. At least, if you’re a newbie, unpublished, unpractised writer, then you ought to learn the ‘unwritten’ laws of the...
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Unruly Herman
I was recently given a ‘Herman the German’ chain cake recipe – a German sour dough friendship cake which has a gestation period of ten days after which you add to the mix, divide into four, bake one...
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Veritably Verbose
Street Graffiti, Norwich, March 2014 I speak English, Hungarian, French and Irish and I write, ergo I love words. However, as a teacher of creative writing, I know that the mis/over use of words,...
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Word up! Rulz No.1
More by using Less: Dump your Darlings There aren’t any rules in creative writing but…. there kind of are. At least, if you’re a newbie, unpublished, unpractised writer, then you ought to learn the...
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