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- Avoiding the Description Trap (pdf)
This article highlights the difference between good and bad description. If done badly, description can actually destroy your work. - Plausibility: an essential feature of fiction (pdf)
This article highlights why plausibility matters, even when you are writing innovative or fantastical fiction. - Readers and why they matter (pdf)
This article will help you to understand why readers matter, and why writers need to think about their target audiences. It also provides some ideas on methods for creating a sense of audience. - The problem with commas 1: The basics (pdf)
This article provides an overview of the basics of comma use, explaining what commas are and the easiest ways of using them in your writing. - NEW! | The problem with commas 2: advanced commas (pdf)
This article follows on from Commas 1 and takes you through some advanced rules of commas usage, complete with worked examples. - Which dash is the right dash? (pdf)
Dashes are very popular punctuation marks - but did you know there was more than one type? And are you using them correctly? This article will show you how. - Writer's Block: climbing that wall (pdf)
This article addresses that most dreaded of afflictions. It can paralyse, it can depress. But, there is a way past it.
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