Writing whilst driving

It’s a warm day October day, 28C on the car thermometor.
I’m trying a new technique for writing today. Writing while I drive. Before you worry that I’m tap tap tapping away whilst navigating through the streets, no fear dear reader, I am but a passenger.
iTunes is hooked up to the stereo system in the car, [...]

Seven tips for good journalistic writing (from 1931)

E.M.Gill’s elementary tips on journalistic writing:1) Never use three words where two will suffice.2) Keep your sentences short and pithy3) Never begin an article with “A” or “The”4) Be sparing in the use of the word “very”.5) Never around doubts in the mind of your reader by the use of the words “perhaps” or “probably”.6) [...]