Category: What Are

Shakespeare did a lot of writing – some of which was done to allegedly create his own words, phrases and sayings. He added on prefixes and suffixes, combined words, changed nouns into verbs and did other such wizardry too – often, he has been credited with the first written usage of the word. Society at…

Harking back to the very first post to be published on Impish Fen, when the time is right to submit your writing to a journal, magazine or other flavour of publisher, you’ll probably be wanting to find the right fit for your work. Aspects like tone, theme, season, length and a whole heap of other…

There are many different types of established publishers that you could entrust your work to – or the option to forgo any external parties and choose to do it yourself. But depending on what you want for your work, there are drawbacks and positives to each way of publishing, so in this article we’ll delve…

There is a lot of media in the world, with plenty more being produced and published as we speak – and a lot of demand for different types of media, too. What was once a market just for physical books quickly became films, then eBooks, and further blossomed into audio books and beyond! In this…

Whether you start your next writing project with a title, wait for inspiration to strike or always have a last-minute scramble to name your poems, books or other writing, you’re already aware of how titles can entice the reader, subtly hint at secrets in the text or even conjure up imagery before they’ve opened the…

If you’ve seen my previous blog post, we’ve already covered issues with typesetting and how to make sure you’re not making simple mistakes that can compromise a text. But now’s a good time to actually discover what typesetting is, best practices and things you should be wary of. Bad typesetting will immediately make itself known…