To master the craft of writing, you need the right approach, the right mindset. It’s no different to mastering archery or martial arts, or tennis, or yoga. You don’t dabble at it, jumping like a monkey from one project to another, never settling down for the long haul. The dabbler doesn’t finish things, doesn’t see…
Many people are confused by punctuation marks, especially with the differences between the comma, semi colon, and colon. Although each punctuation mark has numerous rules associated with its use, it’s not hard to get to grips with the basics. Comma Commas are one of the most used and misused punctuation marks of the English language….
Even though it will take time to reach a climax, and even though the reader will have to wait and wait for the punchline, and even though this may make some readers think ‘hey, what’s this guy’s problem already,’ and even though it breaks just about every rule of blogging and SEO, even despite all…
Like many writers, I’ve sometimes asked myself this question: what’s the right length for a novel? I know lots of rough guidance, such as 60,000 actual words as a minimum, 80,000 for an average adult novel, and anything over 100,000 is a bit long and expensive for publishers to produce. There is also the obvious…