The rule about rules is that you have to know the rule before you can break the rule, but there is an exception and that is Point of View, POV. The POV rule says that the section of the work you are writing must be written from the point of view of one person, but this is not always easy to spot when you’re the author. Try as I might, I dread the assessment of another writer who informs me that I have failed yet again. For instance, I start off an action scene from the perspe

I confess to being terrified of writing action scenes, although I love reading them. When my publisher Penmore Press sent me out the PDF Book Block of His Most Italian City for proof reading I nearly fell over backwards when I read my first attempt at an action scene that had given me such labour and angst. It actually sounded like real action. I wrote to my editor expressing my amazement but, I have to confess (again), writing one now still fills me with dread and anticipati