There's more to a sentence than just words, there are those funny looking marks that are required every now and then to make a sentence make sense. They're called punctuation marks, and it turns out are taken for granted 99% of the time.
Thursday, September 17, 2026
The Structure of the English Language: Punctuation
Helen Bolam is a writer, author and podcaster. Offering advice to writers to cure their writing pains.
Tuesday, July 28, 2026
The Utilisation of the English Language: Technology and the English Language
From the inception of the internet the English language has been evolving. From AI chatbots to social media slang it's pretty clear to see that the language has been shaped by our devices, smartphones and laptops.
Helen Bolam is a writer, author and podcaster. Offering advice to writers to cure their writing pains.
Thursday, July 23, 2026
The Utilisation of the English Language: Riddles, the Playful Side of the English Language
Riddles are carefully thought out poems that act like a puzzle, and are usually expressed in allegorical or metaphorical ways. Requiring meticulous thinking to answer the conundrum.
Helen Bolam is a writer, author and podcaster. Offering advice to writers to cure their writing pains.
Saturday, July 04, 2026
A List of Language Variations
Linguists categorise varieties of language, some refer to rules and word usage, vocabulary or others refer to the way a language has adapted culturally. All terms cover differences in pronunciation, vocabulary and grammar.
Helen Bolam is a writer, author and podcaster. Offering advice to writers to cure their writing pains.
The Utilisation of the English Language: Accents, Dialects and Varieties
Helen Bolam is a writer, author and podcaster. Offering advice to writers to cure their writing pains.
Friday, May 29, 2026
What You Need to Know About the Global Reading Crisis that is Happening Today
As time has passed there has been a slow erosion of one of the most basic and important parts of human living. The ability to read.
Helen Bolam is a writer, author and podcaster. Offering advice to writers to cure their writing pains.





