Patsy Collins - Words about writing and writing about words

This blog is no longer regularly updated, but I am still blogging, and writing , and now I'm learning to swim in the sea. If you'd l...

This blog has now been combined with the Womagwriter one.  It's all a bit experimental at the moment. My plan is that I'll incl...

Dressed is the past tense of dress or dressing .  Most of these words are connected with putting things on – a person wearing clothes is d...

Industry is a type of trade or manufacture, it can refer to trade and manufacture collectively. Those things will often happen in an indu...

Judging by the response to l ast week's post , in which I asked for your competition news and provided the usual three links to free wr...

Literary means – of, constituting or occupied with books or written composition. Suppose that means I'm literary to some extent, as ...

A tradition is an ongoing custom, belief or opinion, often passed on for generations.  Atristic and literary principles and methods wh...

For this short story competition from Parsec Ink, you're asked to write a story of up to 3,500 words on the theme of forging . Good wor...

  Art  is both human creative skill, and the results of that skill.   The arts  are different branches of creative activity.  (Pa...