All power to ‘to be’: cleft sentences
Writing teachers can be super mean about ‘to be’. It’s a boring, unemotive, indescriptive verb, a total waste of space, […]
Bibliography and useful resources for sentences and writing
Useful resources Vince (2009) Advanced Language Practice pp 54 – 91 Fish, S (2011) How to Write a Sentence and How to […]
Kelly Rowland’s (tentatively-linked) advice for emphatic writing
Kelly Rowland said in an interview on BBC Radio 1 recently that she loves being in England because everyone sings […]
The World of Ghostwriting
Ghostwriters are the illicit side of writing. Prostitutes of the written word, if you will. Authors don’t like to admit […]
Reclaiming sentences
For the last few weeks, I’ve been working on an idea. Initially it was something that came out of teaching […]
Writing update
And pause for a moment… The last few weeks have been hectic, writing the book proposal and example chapter with […]
Deadlines and proposals
With Palestine’s application for statehood to be heard by the UN on 24th September, we are working great guns to […]
Riot Rebuild volunteer
Watching the riots spread across Britain this month was truly vile. I wanted to be part of the Broom Army, pulling […]
Sneaky peek
A teeny glimpse into the world I’m researching and learning about: Palestine’s Sesame Street
Plotting a book
A combined mission this week: to gather ideas for Daoud’s book and to work out how to plot both books. […]