If you're writing science fiction and running low on plot, it's not unheard of to dip into classic literature and... erm... borrow...

I wish I'd started this post when I first began sending out poems and stories for publication. But here are a few little gems I've f...

One of the things I love about Twitter is how it's become a natural home for the dreadful pun. I've blogged before* about Hashtag ga...

My series of posts last year on short forms of writing was incomplete - it covered the shortest of short stories , tiny rhymes , haiku and ...

I'm sorry to disappoint long-standing followers, but I forgot about National Double Entendre Week back in March. This was a completely ...

It's a funny time of year - and I hope these Christmas jokes make it just a little bit funnier: Q - Why is Christmas just like another ...

Not knowing how to describe myself in just a few words -as Twitter requires -I leave my description as: 'I used to be a magician's a...

A couple of times lately, I've had to work a few hours in the Children's Library - which is conveniently (for me!) separate in an ad...

The clocks go back this weekend here in the UK and the nights are drawing in so I thought light up your lives by sharing some of the best li...

I first heard of the Oxford comma on one of Dogberry's posts at Inky Fool .  Punctuation named after places? Whatever next? Apparently i...

Readers of a sensitive disposition should avert their eyes now. It is time to acknowledge the place the limerick holds in impolite society....

Continuing in my series on small poems (I covered the smallest poems in the world and haiku in previous posts), I come with some trepidati...

Would you believe some friends of mine never darken the doorstep of their local library?  'I love the smell of new books," says Ba...

I blogged yesterday about short, short stories but as a writer of fiction and poetry I'm here to tell you that it's a helluva lot ...