

The Golden Age of Independent Publishing
Markets of various kinds all around the world are being transformed by the rise of the internet, and the world of publishing is no...


Some Successful Actions
Here are some more practical successful actions as a writer, tried and tested! 1. Treat writing as a job. Arrive at your writing space in...


Five Basic Mechanisms
You read so many stories as a child, and at school, loving them or hating them without really knowing why. ​ You encounter so much...

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


The Fascination of Fiction
I've always been fascinated by fiction -what it is, why it works, why we read it. ​ I wanted to know why certain books appealed to me,...

The Seven Pillars of Successful Writing
1. Core Ideas At the heart of whatever it is you want to communicate as a writer, whether that’s a very definite idea that you want...


10 Tips to Help You Get Published
Real secrets of writing a good story and getting a publisher to pay at least some attention to it are contained in the book How Stories...

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


Writers and Making Money
When you’re trying to make a living as a writer, it can seem at times that you live in a pretty merciless world. Being a writer is not...


3 Embarrassing Realisations as a Fiction Writer
It seems that there are two broad breeds of fiction writer: those who write, and those who think about being a writer and perhaps...