This is going to be a mix of moral philosophy and writing craft – and perhaps the two are more closely aligned than at first appears. Good writers after all are good people… Or are they? These thoughts were inspired by one of the writers at our Venice Writing Retreat. He wondered whether there was a code for writers – a set of moral precepts, guiderails, if you like, that conscientious writers are bound to observe. It seemed to me that the question could be broken down into three sections....