Writing Plague Doctor Three (and Plague Doctor Two) created a few problems. Linguistic and cultural problems. Rylee, the main character,…

“This is the only one that I love” he says tenderly.

I look at the plague doctor in his long black coat and hat and mask with a beak at the end of it and wonder what it would be like to fall in love with him.

That embarrassing moment when you realise that you’ve written a word that can also mean something else. For example. This…

It’s easy to be contemptous of history, contemptous of historical figures, to mock certain military generals for their mistakes, for…

This piece of writing seemed fine at first but when I edited it I saw that it didn’t make sense,…

A prominent eco warrior is to swim across the Atlantic instead of flying in order to avoid harming the planet…

Scene breaks are a way of separating scenes in novels, to distinguish the end of one scene and the beginning…

Or are you now ready? This was a pretty interesting exercise in how to use your writing skills, and it…

A huge turd has been spotted floating off the coast of Sweden – but defence experts fear that it might…