
Are You Serious About Selling Your Work?
• Would you like to make money from your writing but can’t see how? • Have you written a book and now you want to sell it and have...


4 Ways of Staying In Tune with Your Readers
One of the hardest things to do as a writer is to assume the viewpoint of the reader. Because you're the writer, you may have been...


When New Writers Are Born
In the process of maturing as a writer, an individual will progress through certain distinct stages. At first, a writer may be frustrated...

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 'Marvel Method'
There may be things we can learn from the wonderful world of comics when it comes to putting a story together. Comics obviously use both...


The Power of Ideas
I’m trying something right now which may or may not be of use to anyone trying to put a story together. Basically and briefly, I’m...


Why Is It So?
There used to be a short segment on Australian television in the 1960s and 70s called ‘Why Is It So?’ It featured an eccentric scientist,...

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 Big Myth of Traditional Publishing
I recently had some correspondence with a wannabe writer who was discouraged, to say the least, by some feedback that he’d received from...