Patsy Collins - Words about writing and writing about words

We're back home after ten weeks away in the campervan! (The photos are all of homes, or former homes, we saw on our travels.) Here...

I really wanted 'grotesque zoomorphic corbels' as the word of the week, but as Gary pointed out, that's more than one word. Sti...

A lapidarium is a collection of carved masonry and gravestones. This one is at Coldingham Priory. I hope you appreciate the lengths I g...

Has your writing ever taken you by surprise? That's this month's Insecure Writer's Support Group question. (If you'd l...

Artificial is something made by people, rather than occurring naturally, especially that which is a copy of something natural (eg artificia...

Subreption is the method of obtaining something by surprise or misrepresentation. I've had quite a few twist ending stories publish...

An excursus is a detailed discussion of a particular point in a book, often placed in an appendix, or a digression in the narrative. It com...

Medicine can mean the science or practise of diagnosing and treating or preventing disease. It's also any drug or preparation used to...

Ongoing means in progress, under way, continuing, being worked on. I have a novel that's been ongoing for years and now looks as thoug...