Liz Monument

Visual fiction and written fiction share many things, including compelling characters, a developed plot with a clear quest and conclusion, and genre conventions (crime thriller, romance, historical or science fiction, for example). Anybody familiar with visual fiction might instinctively…

Harry Bingham founded Jericho Writers in 2004. Jericho offer worldwide editorial and educational services for writers of all genres. 

Harry's August 2021 blog echoes exactly what I was told when I set out on my writing journey, many years ago…

One of the most important skills my first writing coach suggested I learn was how to ‘read as a writer’. It didn’t come easily, and it took longer than I’d expected (about two years of concentration and application, to properly…

'Show don’t tell' is an important rule for all writers of fiction. Showing is vivid for the reader, because it unfolds events in real time, as though we’re watching them happen. Telling is when everything is related in hindsight…

Dystopian fiction is a particular kind of science fiction. Whereas science fiction can be about intergalactic travel, off-world adventures, spaceships and futuristic technology, dystopian fiction is always situated on our Earth, ‘somewhen’ in the future. Dystopian fiction is therefore a…

I wrote my first book, The Heirs of History: A Nation From Nothing, on Google Docs. The book clocked in around 111,000 words. Writing it on Docs was a mistake. 

TLDR: Google Docs is not a good book writing…

The expression ‘clunky prose’ is often used by writing coaches and editors. It describes prose which is clumsily written. We’ve all been guilty of using clunky prose at some point, which is why the phrase is so commonly used. Aspiring…

Line editing involves making changes to a manuscript at a sentence-by-sentence level. 

A thorough line edit can crank up the tension in your work, by making the prose punchy and to-the-point. The purpose of this is to improve the storytelling…

If you want to know what a writing coach will bring to your prose in terms of editorial help, read my blog explaining how and why.

I’m delighted to have recently been appointed a coaching Mentor for Jericho Writers…

If you're interested in knowing how an editor can help improve your manuscript, I've written a blog about it here. I've also explained, with a detailed example, the process of line editing here. 

One of the interesting things…