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What would you need in order to be able to effectively ‘sell’ something to others? Self-evidently, perhaps, you would need some ‘others’...

’Once upon a time…’ Whenever a story-teller says those words, what happens in the minds of his or her audience? A story-teller is a...

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

’I want to do something splendid… Something heroic or wonderful that won’t be forgotten after I’m dead… I think I shall write books.’ ―...

If the truth about stories is that they are like icebergs, with 80% of what makes them work lying beneath the surface, then we can use...

Plot Power comes in many forms. Emotion, character qualities, the fact that your story is in a genre - I’m not going to deny that these...

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

I’ve explained elsewhere that deep attraction comes when you give a reader the feeling of being drawn into an emptiness or gap or loss or...

As an editor, I meet a lot of GOOD writers out there who are really frustrated. They are sick of plots that go nowhere. They're annoyed...

As a child, I grew up in the ancient kingdom of Elmet on the edge of the Peak District in South Yorkshire, where I walked in the green...