Forget the old cliché, 'there's a novel inside everyone'. That might well be true, but the tricky part is getting it out and on to paper. I think I've discovered the secrets of writing a ...

There are good writers and bad writers. 'Clean' writers and 'dirty' writers. Those such as Ernest Hemingway, Raymond Chandler, Dashiel Hammett, George Orwell, Elmore Leonard, Eric Ambler, Mark Timlin and Ross Macdonald wrote 'clean' prose. ...