Be Careful Not to Show Your Age – a note on dating your work (no, not taking your notebook to the cinema, please, people!)

Remember the days of gr8 and l8r? Thinking of using them in your YA novel to make your teens 'cool' and 'hip'. Think again! These days a lot of teens have iphones, along with predictive text, and they've gone back to using complete sentences. Using l8r will date your writing. Other things date writing too [...:]