Writing

This isn’t a proper post, just a piece of admin, and advance warning that this blog is about to undergo a redesign. I wanted to warn the regular readers (hi Gina, hi Lyndon) that things could get a bit chaotic around here for a few days / weeks. Nothing serious – but things might look [...]

Writing advice is everywhere on the internet. There’s way too much to link to on a regular basis without getting overwhelmed. But today there’s a great article on writing advice from a range of writers, mostly novelists, on the website of the UK newspaper The Guardian. It’s well worth checking out. These are not archive [...]

Email is not just a means of communicating quickly. It’s also a way of storing information so you can refer to it later. So when writing effective emails, you need to bear in mind both how to get your point across in the short term, and how useful the message will be as a means for the recipient to store and later retrieve information.

Ulysses – a new writing software package