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In practice, good editors are doing a very simple thing: they are recovering an author’s true potential from within a work where it 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...

It’s a common assumption, and a workable one for now, that a story is always junior to its author. By this it is meant that an idea or...

Ideas underpin any piece of fiction. They make the difference between the book that doesn’t get sold and the bestseller; they also make...

If you sat down by a fireside with a good friend on a winter’s evening to tell that friend a story that you felt was deeply important,...

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

You’ve decided to write? Lay these foundations and you’ll be able to build a career. 1. Treat writing as a job. Arrive at your writing...

A simple search on Google will give you a glimpse of the many thousands of books and blog posts that there are on writing. And on this...

Surviving as a writer is not just about working hard - you have to work smart. ‘You have to do more’ is not as workable as ‘You have to...

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