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Before you start on your literary masterpiece, you should spend some time thinking about how you want to get it published. You could try to find a traditional publisher, but if may take you a long time to find a suitable one and, even then, there’s no guarantee that they’ll take your book, especially if you are a novice writer. So, what should ...

To communicate with one another, we need two things: a vocabulary, and some grammar. (Otherwise we degenerate to using rude hand gestures!) Together, these create our language. Our vocabulary (the words we use) provides us with the building blocks of our language. That’s why it’s important to understand fully what words mean and also to be ab...

Starting on 17th November is National Short Story Week 2014. If you visit their website you can read short stories, listen to short stories and it may even inspire you to start writing short stories. There are some excellent tips to be picked up there from experts such as Katie Fforde – but first, here are our own tips on how to make your charact...

If you have your own business, then you’re probably selling something – whether it’s goods, services or ideas.But, the only way you’re going to actually make a sale is by convincing people to buy them. (Unless, of course, they are so rare or wonderful that their fame spreads by word of mouth and people are queueing up on your doorstep ...