

Myth and the 'Now' Part Twenty One: The Present Day
Surrounded by an Ironic culture in which many denizens of both Oxford and Cambridge had been swayed by modernism, secularism and even...


5 Basics You Need To Put In As A Writer
I’ve written elsewhere about a survey I did a few years ago with a class of 13 year olds and how it revealed some interesting things. One...

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...


Myth and the 'Now' Part Twenty: The Turning Point
The ‘Journey of the Magi’ was the first of a series of poems T. S. Eliot later grouped together as the 'Ariel Poems' and was published in...


Myth and the 'Now' Part Nineteen: What Comes After Irony?
It seems we’re all doomed, then. As we have progressed through this series of articles so far, literature has moved through Frye’s modes...


3 Steps to Achieving Your Goals
I got to thinking the other day how I had actually managed to achieve a great many personal goals in my life, and how that had resulted...

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...


Contracts and Stuff
I wonder if you can help me out here. For several years, I have been publishing books based on contracts with authors. I’m no lawyer and...

Myth and the 'Now' Part Seventeen: 'The Waste Land'
Another good example of what I mean by the ‘Ironic culture’ of the Twentieth and Twenty-first Centuries is T. S. Eliot’s poem, The Waste...