
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...


A Vital Point To Consider If You're Trying To Get Published: Part 3
We have established — or rather, asserted, as I am aware that there may be disagreements with this — that a primary reason why certain...


A Vital Point To Consider If You're Trying To Get Published, Part 2
In the last article, I asserted that, for the most part, the gatekeepers of traditional publishing tend to be trained in English...


A Vital Point To Consider If You're Trying To Get Published: Part 1
I made a point recently about my reading through submissions and finding that many stories had been submitted which didn’t fit the...


Getting The Order Right
Working my way through the latest anthology submissions, I’m noticing something interesting: a significant number of writers have...


A Writing Calendar
If you’re fortunate enough to be in a position where you can concentrate on your writing full-time, all year round, then this calendar...


A Different Way of Doing Things Part Seven: Who's Orbiting Who?
As a writer striving to get published and/or get your self-published work out there into the marketplace, you probably spend a great deal...

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...


A Different Way of Doing Things Part Six: Finding the Motherlode
We’ve been looking at the idea of you having a shop which sold your fiction. Not a bookshop featuring books by other authors — just your...