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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...

Characters ‘taking on a life of their own’ is a refrain I have heard from both amateur and professional writers. Even highly experienced...

You have only to spend a short amount of time with writers, perhaps in writers’ groups or personally, to realise that most of them are...

Just as Tolkien used the entire mythos of Middle-earth to assist him in processing what he had witnessed in the First World War and in...

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

Horror stories belong in the Irony quadrant of my genre circle, as outlined in my book How Stories Really Work. Irony - and its subset...

I recently had a writer contact me to ask about his use of elves in various stories that he was working on. He was wondering in...

Marketing is an area of being a writer which has never been fully cracked by many. Traditional publishing usually took on this role, and...