Category: What Are

Also known as the most commonly given piece of writing advice ever, this phrase does get banded around a lot, but there is a reason why! There’s always a lot of discussion about ‘teaching’ writing in the right way, and also a lot of duff or repeated ideas – but one of the highly effective…

In writing, a lot of the component parts of a story work together to form the whole – the plot progresses alongside the character’s journey, the story arcs develop and make themselves known alongside tone and other aspects of story development. But there are also ways to strengthen the relationships between the parts – by…

I know – it’s quite cheeky for someone who can’t do their eyeliner properly to write an entire blog post about outlining, but it’s a skill that comes in very handy for planning and pitching work. As well as giving you the ability to keep track of your plot-line, characters and events, planning ahead is…

Bear with me, I know this sounds like a complicated one, but you’ve likely encountered these two terms without knowing what they’re called. They are used most commonly to refer to other words or phrases – sometimes as part of slang, or a shortening of a pre-existing place, person, emotion or object. In this blog…

Forming passages of text (poems, blog posts like this one or anything else) is done word by word, like laying the foundations for a brick wall! Because of this, you’ll need to be choosing the strongest words to get your point across, picking a logical structure that the reader can follow, and making sure your…

Writing can be used for a variety of reasons – to sell a product or service (commercially) as well as for hobbyist practise, or created for the wider publishing market – as well as many others! But there are also further ‘classes’ of writing, which explore how they can be used for a specific purpose…