A Frayed Quill

There's a great line in the 1958 film " Elevator to the Gallows ". " You read. It gives you great ideas. "

Webster has a list of some great and rarely used insults . 01. Cockalorum -  a boastful and self-important person; a strutting little fe...

EM Forster once said, " I'm quite sure I'm not a great novelist. Because I've only got down onto paper really three types o...

I recently found a copy of a book I've been looking for for years in an old antique shop, however it's cover was falling off and one...

I loathe auto-correct. Not only will it be responsible for some war in the future it's actively contributing to the dumbing down of the ...

City of Ember published in 2003 by Jeanne DuPrau. The City Under Ground published in 1963 by Suzanne Martel.

This is quite an interesting read if it's new to you. This isn't the first time it's happened in the literary world either. F...

I've not officially signed onto NanoWrimo this year but I have been working on the "throw away" novel here and there. I've...

Believe it or not this blog isn't dead. It's just been a tumultuous past three or so years. I'm kicking around an idea for a s...

Verbs evolve much in the same fashion as DNA. For decades, scientists have realised that languages evolve in strikingly similar ways to gene...

AN*NO*TA*TION blog has a really interesting idea to keep yourself motivated and/or inspired when you're writing. She calls it a " w...

Shelfari makes it easy to see what your friends are reading, what others with similar tastes have enjoyed, and even get and give book recomm...

Andrew Taylor has some brief words of advice for creating your plot.

Here's a really fun read about what has happened to some authors when they go on book signing tours. "The whole time I'm doing...

Frozen communion wine, soft rains that caressed the earth and winds that wrought an all-consuming yellow fog are described meticulously by t...