SESSION THREE - 29 April 2020 - Wycombe Sound Writers' Clinic

Topics – How to laugh in the face of grammar and developing your story antenna to help find good story ideas.

REFERENCED ITEMS:

Eats Shoots and Leaves by Lynne Truss - A painless solution to some tricky grammar problems. See the book.

Manuscript layout – There is no one layout that will suit all publishers and magazine editors. But generally this layout works and it covers all the usual requirements. The footer should at least have the title and page number which appears on every page. Competition organisers always need your MS to be anonymous and changing the footer is a simple operation. This MS is double spaced. If you use styles (as it’s know in MS Word) it is a simple matter to change any layout settings by altering the style. Styles can be tricky to get used to but its worth the effort. And editors love it. Click here for the sample manuscript layout.

Punctuation in dialogue - Dialogue has its own unique punctuation rules. Don't get caught out. Click here for dialogue punctuation guide. 

LINKS

To hear this session again or to begin listening from day one, go to-

https://wycombesound.org.uk/writers-clinic/ 

Wycombe Sound Short Story Week - Short stories created by students from the Wycombe Sound Writing Workshop.

CONTACTS:

Wycombe Sound website 

Wycombe Sound -call the studio - 01494 449900