Shaun McNicholas formed Cool Rules [for writers] in Adelaide in 2001. He works with government, education and business clients across Australia to improve workplace writing. He runs workshops, creates customised resources, and advises on how to develop confident and capable writers.
Shaun’s background is in public and private sector management and leadership roles. His practical, supportive, confidence building approach comes from years of working with people – at all levels of organisations – who find writing a daunting and difficult task.
As well as face-to-face and online training, Shaun can advise on customised strategies (pre-employment testing, exemplars, templates, mentoring, review, etc) to encourage, support and challenge writers in their work.
Participants consistently rate Shaun’s workshops – occasionally influenced by his interests as a musician and songwriter – as excellent. He trains in most aspects and types of workplace writing, and is always happy to customise his workshops to suit client needs.
Shaun is the author of the (sadly) now out of print CD/CD-ROM
Cool English: A Musical Guide to Better Grammar and Writing (winner of the Australian Interactive Media Industry Association Best Export Title in 2001), and The Apostrophe Song iPhone App.
Call Shaun McNicholas at
Cool Rules [for writers] on mobile +61 0412 126 59, email shaun@coolrules.com, or use our
Contact Form.
Write in a reckless fever. Rewrite in a cardigan. DBC Pierre
The shorter and the plainer the better. Beatrix Potter
One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple. Jack Kerouac
Get it down. Take chances. It may be bad, but that's the only way you can do anything really good. William Faulkner
Show up, show up, show up, and after a while the muse shows up too. Isabel Allende
There is no right language or wrong language any more than there are right or wrong clothes. Context, convention and circumstance are all. Stephen Fry
The main rule of writing is that if you do it with enough assurance and confidence, you're allowed to do whatever you like. Neil Gaiman
If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough. Albert Einstein
