How to avoid writing about a ‘banned’ topic
Here’s one way of ethically avoiding mentioning the corona virus if you’re writing a novel. ‘Ethically’ means not being sneaky,…
When it isn’t okay to say okay
Writing Plague Doctor Three (and Plague Doctor Two) created a few problems. Linguistic and cultural problems. Rylee, the main character,…
In love with a plague doctor part 2
“This is the only one that I love” he says tenderly.
In love with a plague doctor
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.
How to chill to an ambiguous word
That embarrassing moment when you realise that you’ve written a word that can also mean something else. For example. This…
First, do no harm
It’s easy to be contemptous of history, contemptous of historical figures, to mock certain military generals for their mistakes, for…
To my horror
This piece of writing seemed fine at first but when I edited it I saw that it didn’t make sense,…
Eco warrior warfare
A prominent eco warrior is to swim across the Atlantic instead of flying in order to avoid harming the planet…
Scene breaks overkill
Scene breaks are a way of separating scenes in novels, to distinguish the end of one scene and the beginning…
Are you ready now?
Or are you now ready? This was a pretty interesting exercise in how to use your writing skills, and it…
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