Entries by anne

In praise of novels without neat conclusions

via guardian.co.uk Here’s a great article in today’s Guardian Books Blog by Lee Rourke. I couldn’t agree more and I love novels with fractured narratives. Here’s one point that Lee makes that I particularly like: Life isn’t like the narratives tha…

Rethinking Em-Dashes and Other Punctuation Malarky

Six pages into my manuscript, for the final (absolutely final) read-through before e-publication, I decided to check whether em-dashes require character spaces. Here’s the two lines of dialogue that prompted this check: ?You were worried. I wasn?t…