I’m always keen to improve my writing, and with examples like the ones below, I shouldn’t have no problems…The first set of rules was written by Frank L. Visco and originally published in the June 1986 issue of Writers’ Digest. I found them on the Plain Language website, put out by the government to help…
Sherry Shameer Cohen is an award winning blogger with 20 years of experience as a freelance general assignment reporter and photographer and 10 years experience as a Special Sections Editor. She describes herself as a parachute journalist, a snappy way of saying that she can handle any assignment she’s dropped into quickly – and presumably…
Gretchen Rubin is the best-selling author of the Happiness Project which has been on the New York Times bestseller list for 46 weeks! The book arose from a blog that Gretchen started as a way to work out how to be happier in her life. Now there’s a book a blog with video-blogging (vlogging?) and…
Tessa McGovern runs a digital publishing company called eChook: http://echook.com/. She also teaches at Sarah Lawrence College on the Bronx, NY. The guest post below will tell you how to sign up for a course led by a real live agent – with connections. Read on: Are you still making up your mind about…
Resolutions. Jut the word conjures up the failures of years past, so why am I bothering to make a couple this year? Because among the failed attempts to exercise for an hour every day, make home cooked meals for the family every night and write a masterpiece, there have been a few successes that have…
Sue Healy is an Irish whirlwind. You’ve only got to check her bio on her blog (http://suehealy.org/) to see that. She’s an award-winning writer, tutor, poet and journalist. She’s lived in Budapest and the UK (where she got her MFA) and teaches creative writing in English prisons. She’s also a Creative Writing tutor with the…
