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As some of you are aware, Clarendon House has services designed especially for new writers or those struggling to find the kind of...

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...


How to Increase Your Chances of Success
For almost ten years now I have been hard at work in the marketplace of ‘writers and writing’. It’s been an interesting time, and...

Fictivity: Larkin and Metaphors
We’re looking at poetry’s use of metaphor — a huge topic, obviously. Perhaps it’s best examined, therefore, by zooming in on a particular...


Fictivity: Metaphors in Poetry
Metaphors are particularly prevalent in poetry, naturally, as poetry concentrates language into maximum vacuum power. That’s almost a...

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...


Fictivity: Weaving the Net of Metaphors
Scientists claim that it’s quite likely that all galaxies swirl around gigantic black holes at their centre. They even claim to have...


Fictivity: The Ubiquitous Metaphor
Metaphor is as much a part of language as words; it’s as much a part of human thinking as thinking itself. If you have been tracking with...