C. S. Lewis on How to Write
In 1954, C. S. Lewis wrote in a letter to Cynthia Donnelly about the role of Christianity in his or anyone’s writing:  'We must not of...
A Reading of the Opening of Forster's 'A Passage to India'
As a work of Irony, Forster’s A Passage to India  opens as you might expect, by mentioning the place of hollow meaninglessness which is...
The Warrior Figure
Obvious as Aragorn in The Lord of the Rings , or Hans Solo in Star Wars , less obvious as Fielding in A Passage to India  or Sirius Black...
Doctor Who and the Perfect Antagonist Part 2
As we saw in an earlier article,‘The Daleks’, originally aired in 1963/4, came at a pivotal point in the development of Doctor Who .  ...
Doctor Who and the Perfect Antagonist
The first episode of the fifty-year-old series Doctor Who  had established a unique set of parameters. The juxtaposition of...
The Comic Companion
Has anyone noticed the ever-present 'comic companion’ in successful stories? He or she is virtually the same figure from tale to tale.  ...
Beating the Blank Page
One can read all the ’How to Write a Story’ guides that one can (including How Stories Really Work ) but actually sitting down to write a...
More on Marvel vs DC
I’ve said earlier that there was one way for DC to go which might work in terms of out-creating Marvel: go ‘super-grim’, in an effort to...
