July - 2023 3/4

Your Biggest Challenge as a Writer - and What To Do About It, Part 1

I recently did a survey of writers, asking them what their biggest challenge was in relation to their writing. A few answered that they...

Continuing with our analogy between narrative points of view in fiction and a football match, we can see that, once we step off 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...

Carrying on with our football analogy from earlier, we saw that what is called ‘stream of consciousness’ in fiction would be similar to...

* for American readers, the ‘football’ to which this article refers is the original English game, which you know as ‘soccer’ - though the...

How do you build affinity with anyone? Well, it usually begins with finding something in common - either a working background, or some...

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

Earlier, we established (I hope) that, out of the two kinds of relationship that exist between people - the intimate and personal...

Broadly speaking, there are two kinds of people in our lives: those with whom we have close relationships based on family affection,...