Style guides and style sheets
What are style guides and style sheets? How do editors use them, and should you use them when you’re writing?
Category: Writing
Beta readers – who are they, and do you need them?
Find out what beta readers are, what they do, and how they might benefit your work in progress.
Using song lyrics in your book
Does ‘San Francisco’ by Scott McKenzie transport you to the summer of love, complete with flowers in your hair? Or maybe ‘Wannabe’ by the Spice Girls sends you straight back to evenings in the uni bar? Nothing taps into our past quite like a song. While certain tunes will be linked to our own personal memories, songs in general can be extremely effective in evoking a sense of time or place, and that can make them irresistible to a writer.
Free access to the Oxford English Dictionary
As a writer, you’re bound to refer to dictionaries pretty often. Would free access to the Oxford English Dictionary online be useful to you? The world moves fast, and words are no exception. It’s not always easy to keep up with new meanings or spellings. I love having a selection …