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Learn: • what a story really is • what it is actually doing to and for you and other readers ​ • the magnetic power that attracts readers...

An article first published nearly six years ago, the principles of which still apply: A working piece of fiction has to attract attention...

Letter # 10, November 4th, 1948 (continued) You ask what is the point of falling asleep? What is the point of losing consciousness and...

Letter # 10, November 4th, 1948 Imagine, then, that you are floating on your back in a swimming pool, in a shallow depth so that you can...

Learn: • what a story really is • what it is actually doing to and for you and other readers ​ • the magnetic power that attracts readers...

Here are some notes I made nearly six years ago which still apply: Writing romantic fiction can be tricky: there are obviously very...

(Looking again at one of my favourite non-fiction works...) On a clear, starlit night, go outside and look at the stars. Try to imagine...

Revisiting a blog post written almost six years ago... The opening line of the novel is a telling one: When he was nearly thirteen my...

Learn: • what a story really is • what it is actually doing to and for you and other readers ​ • the magnetic power that attracts readers...

In view of the current Great Clarendon House Writing Challenge round in which contestants have to write a detective story with a twist in...