Aliya Whiteley on whether a writer needs to be there or just look it up on Google Earth: I know that place. Two of my relatives have held wedding receptions in that hotel. The beach is indeed stunning, and very often empty. Although the names have been changed, every detail is exact. And I suppose [...]
Via Daring Fireball, I see that it’s the fiftieth anniversary of the publication of Strunk and White’s Elements of Style. For those who don’t know, the book is a rock-solid primer on grammar, style and punctuation. (American English, of course, but 90% is applicable to those writing in International English.) I recommend it to my [...]
As some of you might know, m’friend Roger Morris has joined that Web 2.0 band of authors what serialise their novels via Twitter. It’s true, getting a sentence or a fragment every hour – that’s how I am now scheduling my tweets – is not like sitting down and reading an extended section of the [...]