Writing for publication

[coyleys 10]

Thanks for that Peacock Lady, all your comments are appreciated and logged in the old grey matter.

With reference to…..

 

It's through reading that you really learn how writing works. If you've never read a book, you have no chance at all of writing one that can stand up for itself. Through reading you understand grammar, punctuation, characterisation, dialogue, exposition--all the building-blocks of writing. And yet many people who want to write hardly ever read.

 

I don’t think you really read a book until you start writing.

The only good thing that came out of my schooling was the ability to read, I never read books at school as it was frowned upon by ones mates, “Tha should be art thear, f’eightin, screwin an mesin abart” I was a conformist to the doctrine of my peers in a typical proletarian suburb of Sheffield of that era.

Upon leaving school I have never been without a book on-the-go, that’s nearly 40 years, so one can imagine how many books that is, however! It was not until a couple of years ago that I started to put pen to paper or finger to keyboard that I realised how poor my grammar was, I now read any written work in a totally different light, I’m getting there, slow but sure.

Hey! Int’it r’eight good this writin lark? Am r’eight chuffed that I am.

[Peacock Lady 10]

“Tha should be art thear, f’eightin, screwin an mesin abart”

 

Nothing wrong with that either....