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The Wit of Gore Vidal

Eugene Luther Gore Vidal (1925 – 2012) was an American writer born into a political family with a grandfather who had served as United...

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

What are your goals and purposes as a writer? That’s if we define ‘goal’ as ‘the object of a person's ambition or effort; an aim or...

As water falls from the sky, it lands on the uneven surface of the world and trickles down, pulled by gravity, to whatever lowest point...

Mervyn Laurence Peake (1911 – 1968) best known for his amazing Gormenghast books, was also an artist, poet, and illustrator. The...

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

One of the things I most often run into when helping writers with their stories is that the writer thinks that he or she has finished a...

I don’t recall ever suffering from ‘writer’s block’, in the same way that I don’t think I’ve been bored since I was about 7. There always...

I’m not a big fan of horror stories or of the horror genre. My thinking is that the world is a frightening and horrible enough place...