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Red ink. I think teachers still use it, in one form or another. When I was at school, it took the form of scrawled words, exclamation marks and even, in some cases, nasty red blots, deposited with apparent abandon over my carefully prepared homework. Not nice... though I expect it sometimes did me good. But I still shudder at the sight of a heavily corrected piece of my own writing. The difference is, these days, the corrections are often my own. I think many of us feel the

Dialogue is one of the hardest things to get right. I don't just mean what your characters say - I mean how they say it. Or how you, as the writer, present it. The mechanics of dialogue are tricky, and as an editor I see a lot of recurrent mistakes. If you're going to submit to a publisher or agent, or if you're planning to self-publish, it's important to get these things right. So here are five tips to get you going. Tell us at an early stage who is speaking Bad example: