writing – JENNY ACKLAND AUTHOR

Blog… resurrected! Apparently this will be emailed to 30 subscribers. Please leave a comment because I don’t know who you are! Let’s get this blogging thing back to mid-2000s action, why not.

December 23, 2025January 1, 2026by Jenny May Ackland6 Comments

Surely I'm not the only one who is totally -- seemingly -- done with Instagram. And Facebook is a thing of the past it seems. A relic. But still I want to tell people things. I want to share stuff. That impulse has never left me. Like this morning. It's Tuesday 23rd December 2025 (I [...]

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Saturday catch up

March 21, 2015April 13, 2015by Jenny May AcklandLeave a Comment

It's been a while since I posted. I have just finished a full-on week of teaching, as well as getting my edited manuscript back to Allen & Unwin. Am tidying my work space and getting things under control after a three-week frenzy with lots of teaching and lots of editing. Celebrating tonight with some French bubbly, [...]

Writing process

Some snippets about On Writing Well

February 13, 2013February 14, 2013by Jenny May Ackland2 Comments

I'm reading through On Writing Well by William Zinssen. It's for non-fiction writers and journalists really but I think there are parallels and transferences to be made. I've probably broken several of his usage versus jargon 'rules' just in that one sentence (not sure if transference can be used in that way and as a [...]

Learning, Writing

Advice from The Times on writing well.

January 18, 2013by Jenny May Ackland2 Comments

This is an excellent article on writing, from The New York Times. I reckon you could spend a day reading it and following the links and making notes and having either light-bulb moments where you go 'ahhhhh' OR affirmation moments where you go 'yes, that's right, that's what I think.' It's one article that encapsulates [...]