Endings
In finishing your story, you are trying to do two basic things: Â 1. Make the ending seem like the consequence of everything that has...
Caging Unsuspecting Readers
Master authors use every trick in the book to capture and hold reader attention. They invented 'the book', which is what makes them...
12 Ways to Increase Tension
Even the simplest story is driven forward on the back of the basic questions ‘What will happen next?’ and ‘What is really going on?’ They...
Master Authors and Four Key Questions
Successful stories ask readers four key questions:  ‘What will happen next?’  This question forms the basis of even the most primitive...
Tough Advice for Writers
If you are really serious about wanting to make a living from writing, there are five hard-hitting bits of advice that you probably need...
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...