Month: March 2017

A topic of conversation that always remains hotly contested among writers is how to refer to an unspecified person. We do this quite naturally in spoken English, but when writing, the choices of personal pronouns at our disposal mean that we sometimes spend longer than we should pondering which ones will help us achieve the […]

Poetry, as a form of writing Is challenging, perilous, brave and exciting But get it just right and it will be rewarding And leave all your best friends in awe and applauding Unless racked with jealously if they’re averse To seeing the beauty of penning some verse Yet there’s still time to view it all […]

A big part of writing for the web is knowing how to report news, and the reason for this is that it never runs out. Imagine switching on the evening news or picking up the paper only to find that journalists and reporters had found nothing to tell us. News is always happening and, if […]

March is shaping into quite some month for advocates of accurate writing. Hot on the heels of National Grammar Day, today sees another mouthwatering date on the grammar geek’s calendar – National Proofreading Day! Alright, so grammar and proofreading is a fairly dry subject for most of us. It’s not something that sets the creative […]

Part of the skill of good writing is taking what sounds good in our heads and converting it into clear, coherent and impressive words on a page. We know exactly what we’re trying to say and