… and how to put them right! Advice and opportunities for new, aspiring and upcoming journalists and writers of non-fiction
My writing specialisms are food allergies and food intolerances, which I’ve been writing about for well over a decade – news, articles, features, blogs, four books, with a fifth due soon. Naturally, I read a lot of material which covers my subjects, and a lot of what I read I think is poor. Is this …
Communication – you’d think it would be the most natural skill for any writer. I mean it’s what we do, isn’t it? But even writers have communication breakdowns at times. Picture this: while you’re sitting at home quietly working on writing assignments, your magazine or newspaper editor is working in a hectic office, getting hundreds …
“I can’t think of any ideas!” “What am I going to write about?” “I’ve been racking my brains all day!” Ideas germinate and develop in brains, so you’re not looking in the wrong place when you’re scratching around in your attic trying to find them. But if the search is proving fruitless and you’re getting …
A long, long gap since my last post, for which I apologise, but I took a much-needed holiday in August. Italy, to see some nice relatives and eat some nice food and enjoy some nice weather – and to deal with some not so nice lizards trespassing in my bedroom and some un-nice snakes seeking …
This is an interesting one, which I tend to see in younger writers, perhaps just out of school or college or uni, and therefore maybe fresh from writing essays. Articles are not essays, clearly. One of the key differences – there are many – is that in an essay you are typically writing to show …
“The most important thing was to write a piece that my interviewee would be completely happy with,” was what a writer told a colleague of mine a while ago, regarding a sculptor she was profiling for an arts journal. I’m sure the final piece was excellent, but I couldn’t help feeling this attitude was a …
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