Pets
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Check, check, check! With readers’ letters, busy editorial staff don’t often have the time to let you know if they’re going to use your letter. It’s great if they do as it saves time standing at the newsagents every week checking to see if your letter has been published. But if you don’t check, you
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If you’re anything like me, Monday morning came round far too quickly. I feel a little like this fella:
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Contractions Building on my tip from last week, this week contractions is the subject of my top tip. A contraction is where words are shortened. As the words are being shortened, an apostrophe needs to be used to indicate the missing letters e.g. I’m is short for I am and so the apostrophe highlights that
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S is for spooky stories. If you like tales of the paranormal, there are lots of publications dedicated to anything and everything unexplained. The editors are always interested in well-researched articles, from UFO sightings, to myths about strange, terrifying creatures, to ghostly tales of old. T is for true-life tales. All of the women’s weeklies
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I wanted to bring more structure to my writing week so I’ve devised a daily plan. So far, it’s going well, with seven pieces of work sent out, lots of editing painstakingly achieved with regards to my children’s books and research underway into another writing project. We’ll see if I can stick to it –
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After a busy weekend, I was raring to go this morning and really needed to crack on. Morris had other ideas!
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My weekly series on ideas for articles now focuses on ‘PQR’: P is for pregnancy and birth. There are numerous magazines on the market covering all aspects from pregnancy, to birth, to afterwards and raising children. Topics such as fashion, diet, exercise, healthy body and mind, pain relief and many more are covered. A lot
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Well, it looks like these two will achieve their New Year’s Resolution of being ready to enter ‘Britain’s Got Talent 2014’!
Esther Chilton 