We sometimes hear about ‘American Exceptionalism,’ but what about ‘Anglo Saxon Exceptionalism?’

This is part two of a series called ‘How to use an ancient language in a novel.’ and it includes…

How to use an ancient language when writing a novel in modern English.

Here’s one way of ethically avoiding mentioning the corona virus if you’re writing a novel. ‘Ethically’ means not being sneaky,…

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

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,…

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…