This was a pretty interesting writing challenge, which occurred to me when I was trying to decide how a Spanish-speaking…

Did you even notice this somewhat clever (or maybe not) play on words? (Sigh) I suppose I should explain. William…

This was an interesting writing problem that occurred when I was editing a scene in my forthcoming horror novel, which…

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…

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,…

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…

Just a use of English problem and how to solve it, that might be useful for someone else who is…