Itchy Bite-Sized

Itchy Bitesized 1: Three Things about First Drafts

Monday, 07 February 2022

Welcome to the first in what I hope is a new series for the Itch. Itchy Bitesized are short posts about all sorts of writing issues, from perspiration inspiration to craft and technique - and I thought a good topic for the first post would be first drafts! Read more →

Posted at 01:26 PM in A Writer's Life, Blog and blogging, Creativity, Itchy Bite-Sized, THE DAY TRIP, THE EXPEDITION, THE WORKBENCH, Write Your First Novel, You and your writing | | Comments (8)

Tags: draft, drafting, drafts, Itchy Bitesized, novel, process

Thursday, 10 February 2022

Itchy Bitesized 2: Three Things about Semi-colons

The second bite of the new Itchy Bite-sized series is nibbling at a much-despised, often confused and actually very useful and very simple punctuation mark: the semi-colon. Read more →

Posted at 01:38 PM in Academic Writing, Craft, Itchy Bite-Sized, Teaching Writing, Technique, THE TOOLKIT, THE WORKBENCH, You and your writing | | Comments (12)

Tags: creative writing, drafting, editing, punctuation, semi-colon, writing technique

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