Clean the sink first, before you even think of starting to cook.

Sometimes inexperienced writers will discover the useful tool of tacking on detail to a dialog tag with a present participal or adverbial phrase: It's too late, she said, closing the door.

’Tis not scurrile this, but chaste, honest, most part serious, and even of religion itself.

Neil McKinnon, the Fringe's head of external affairs, asks: Are you flyering in the right place at the right time? How are you flyering? Good flyering is about more than standing there handing out flyers to as many people as you can.