Category Archives: warning

The Write Agenda

I’ve been watching The Write Agenda for some months now. It’s an unpleasant site which goes to pathetic and ridiculous lengths to discredit writers’ watchdogs and scam-busters, sometimes with unintentionally hilarous consequences. I’ve not blogged about it until now because I didn’t want to provide The Write Agenda with any attention. But at last those…

Real Writing Jobs? I Don’t Think So

Someone called Kaley Tuitele recently left a comment on another thread on my blog in which she sang the praises of this website, which apparently pays her to leave her poorly-punctuated spammy comments full of spelling errors on blogs like mine. She claims to write “content articles” too: I do hope none of them are…

Is It Rude To Ask?

When we want to move house, we find a house that we think might suit and then we ask the estate agent how many bedrooms it has, where it is, how much it’s going to cost us, what sort of state it’s in, and all sorts of other questions too. Asking questions isn’t enough to…