All great writing requires constant work. None of it and no one, comes by it easily. Consistent tuning is needed to create that ‘magical story moment’ through your words on the page. However, there are steps you can follow to help. The steps...
Killing two birds with one stone. Two peas in a pod. Two of a kind. Two-faced. Two-cents-worth. The list goes on and on of idioms about the word two. I constantly have to look up the meaning of mathematical terms for my kids (don’t know why they’re not...
Let’s call out the purple elephant in the room with you. Have courage, go on. You know – the one that’s taking up all that room, over there, on your page. It’s called long sentences. It happens. We all have occasion to feed the elephant at times. For...
The way you write for business needs to change. Pompous is out, plain speaking is in. That’s the long and short of it. I know, some of you may have been writing the same way you were taught at school and university – and it’s worked perfectly well, thank...
Sometimes you just know. There was that feeling when you met. Simpatico. The air was sizzling hot. You could read each other’s minds. You’d finish each other’s sentences. They could be the one. Is it right – should you want them so much, this soon? The...
