I’ve just had a heartstopping moment. Not the end of the world, but shocking to someone who prides herself on being accurate with words and web content. If you write your own copy, do you ask someone else to look at it before you publish? You should. We all should: no-one is immune from word […]
Category Archives: Writing process
Helpful criticism is one of the best ways of improving someone’s writing, but how to be critical without offending? The answer for some is not to give feedback at all, which is a lost opportunity for the writer. We all tend to feel that our writing represents us and are easily wounded by someone taking […]
If writers produce good copy, whether for a book, an article or a website, it’s probably because they spend more time editing and polishing their draft, and less time writing it. A draft should be written quickly, as fast as possible. It needn’t be very good; in fact it shouldn’t be. If you try to […]
Did you hear the late Seamus Heaney’s reading of Beowulf on Radio 4? It sounded wonderful. I only vaguely followed the story, but that didn’t matter. It was still lovely to listen to and made me want to read it. Epics and sagas were meant to be listened to. Most weren’t written down until much […]
After two days at the Hay Festival of Literature, I found myself thinking about the difference in quality of the interviewers of the authors. The format is for each author to be interviewed by another writer, who then invites questions from the audience and chairs the discussion. One interviewer I thought very good and another […]
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