It's been a while since I posted. I have just finished a full-on week of teaching, as well as getting my edited manuscript back to Allen & Unwin. Am tidying my work space and getting things under control after a three-week frenzy with lots of teaching and lots of editing. Celebrating tonight with some French bubbly, [...]
Tag: writing
Some snippets about On Writing Well
I'm reading through On Writing Well by William Zinssen. It's for non-fiction writers and journalists really but I think there are parallels and transferences to be made. I've probably broken several of his usage versus jargon 'rules' just in that one sentence (not sure if transference can be used in that way and as a [...]
Advice from The Times on writing well.
This is an excellent article on writing, from The New York Times. I reckon you could spend a day reading it and following the links and making notes and having either light-bulb moments where you go 'ahhhhh' OR affirmation moments where you go 'yes, that's right, that's what I think.' It's one article that encapsulates [...]