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Why You Should Learn To Wrangle Long Sentences As Well As Short Ones
The prevailing orthodoxy among many of my fellow writers - not to mention writing teachers and students - is that short sentences, specially with the simple syntax which they’re also likely to have, are ‘punchier’. They’re striking. Listen!...
Thirteen Reasons You May Be Procrastinating
And even more ways to help yourself get on with it
A writer - from aspiring to multi-published - is someone who wants to write and so does write. And yet for many writers it’s a lifelong struggle to convert the want into the deed. For ever...
Why I Still (quite often) Believe in Writing Workshops
How to avoid the drawbacks and make the most yours
Garth Greenwell’s deeply thoughtful Substack post about why he doesn’t believe in workshopping any more came out while I was on holiday, so I’m only now getting my own thoughts round it. M...
On Empathy and Enchantment
Joyce Carol Oates, of this parish, absolutely nails it:
Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into another’s skin, another’s voice, another’s soul.
I came across this quote here, where it kicks off...
What is subtext and how can it improve your writing?
In a recent Itch of Writing Q&A, a supporter asked about including more subtext in their novel, as some writing-group colleagues had suggested it would improve their writing: specifically the depth and atmosphere.
In a recent Itch of Writi...
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Writes fiction and non-fiction, teaches, mentors, blogs @ This Itch of Writing. New novel The Bruegel Boy due November 2025
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