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Punctuating thoughts in prose

It’s taken me a long time to settle on a method for punctuating thoughts. A lot of the older children’s novels I read (from the 1950s and 1960s) punctuate thoughts with double or single inverted commas, but this makes the thoughts

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Final draft… I think

I’m nearly finished with what I hope will be final draft of the book. To get to this stage, I converted a earlier draft into an e-pub (iBooks) file and emailed to as many people as I thought would read it on

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And finally… a site

Although I’d bought this domain name in 2012 (www.themirrorchildren.com) I started trying to blog using blogspot this September. I very quickly realised that it had limited functionality and started setting up a site here using WordPress. It has taken about 3

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