May - 2023

A Writer is a 'Business-in-Miniature'

Returning in the early 1990s to the UK after 26 years in Australia and the United States, it was my pleasure to work with many small to...

Our society as a general rule expects instant gratification. Older generations had to wait for certain vegetables to appear in the shops;...

Over the last five hundred years or so it is possible to see a trend in human civilisation from the perception that the universe was an...

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

George MacDonald (1824 – 1905) a Scottish author, poet and Christian minister, was a pioneering figure in the field of fantasy...

So why do we need myths? A standard answer might be formulated along the lines of ‘because humanity needs meaning, and myth was a first...

I thought that some of you might be interested in the process of putting an anthology together, either because you are thinking about...

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 evening, many years ago, I was in a room listening to someone describe an event in their lives. This person was a known compulsive...