Better writing NOW
I’ve been writing the Under the Microscope pieces for around ten years now and I’ve noticed certain patterns. Apprentice writers always struggle with the same things – sometimes for years. But imagine if you could solve all of those problems in one go. You’d be a better writer almost instantly and save years of workshopping or rejections from agents and publishers.
This is not a fanciful notion. Most of the reasons for ineffective prose are simply addressed – often in a matter of minutes. The difficulty is twofold. One: accepting that one has a problem. Two: identifying exactly what the problems are and how to address them. The first is up to you. The second is my aim in this article.
Punctuation
I’ll be quite honest: I don’t think I’ve ever seen a piece of work from an apprentice writer who understood the rules of
