Technicalities Essays

Formatting poetry provides a few complications when compared to plain text. This is a guide to setting up poetry on a page.

A step-by-step explanation of how to write a book from start to finish.

There are many web-based tools and apps that can help writers. Publisher Connor Sansby shares a selection that he has found useful.

Semicolons are often seen as impossible, but their rules are fairly simple. This is a grammar guide to using the semicolon.

Brackets, or parentheses, can seem tricky, but the rules of how to use them are fairly simple. This is a grammar guide to using brackets.

A series exploring storytelling techniques. This essay looks at the different types of irony and how to understand them.

Descriptions, when used correctly, are integral to a story, but at other times they can be unnecessary.

Apostrophes are often seen as difficult, but the rules of how to use them are fairly simple. This is a grammar guide to using apostrophes.

An introduction to the three most common types of satire: Horatian, Juvenalian and Menippean.

Books are judged by their covers, and there should be no excuse for a badly-made cover. Here are some options for book covers.