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Poetry, like other forms of creative writing, is fiction, in the sense that it is ‘made up’: the poet puts words together not for any...

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

Between the end of the 1950s and 1970, a creative explosion took place in comics. As has been previously discussed, Stan Lee, becoming...

We know from How Stories Really Work that fiction follows certain templates in order to be successful. Rather than detracting from the...

It’s part of the legend of the composition of the poem ‘Kubla Khan’ that it arose out of drug-induced reverie. Poet Samuel Taylor...

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We all work extremely hard already as writers. To be told that we have to do more is not an easy thing to hear. But the truth is that,...

’Initially, Watchmen gained a lot of its readership because it was taking an unusual look at superheroes, but actually it was more about...

In finishing your story, you are trying to do two basic things: 1. Make the ending seem like the consequence of everything that has...

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