YA author Rayne Lacko tells how falling in love with the colorful speech patterns of the American Southwest helped her shape her novel A Song for the Road. When I charted an epic road trip across the American Southwest for Carter Danforth, ...
I’ve often wondered if there comes a point where having a strong vocab is actually an obstacle when it comes to verbal communication. I don’t know if others can relate with me, but I find that I talk slower, and I have awkward p...
For dialogue, they speak their own parts to test if it sounds believable. For the story, it runs in my head and is frequently revised. So for example. I’m starting the second book while my first one is being beta read. It opens with a...
‘The desire to interrupt the process of radicalisation is a laudable one, but we cannot let that desire override the very liberties and values that many of today’s terrorists seek to threaten’...
One in 10 children in Wales struggle with their speech and language, according to therapists....
England’s children’s commissioner highlights “enormous variation” in money spent across the regions....
Churchill, of course, was capable of giving a rousing speech. Here are a few classics: “Even though large tracts of Europe and many old and famous States have fallen or may fall into the grip of the Gestapo and all the odious apparatu...
Anti-abortion group is now hoping to set up a society to ensure both sides are represented...
‘University should not accept this kind of behaviour lightly’...
Write a story or scene using at least three words from each list. (You will be awarded with bonus imaginary internet points if you can use more.) ADJECTIVEScrypticimaginativevulgarelegantcautiousextraordinarypretentiousintactlush VERBScrump...