How Stories Really Work

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....

This is the companion volume to How Stories Really Work: Exploring the Physics of Fiction, which contains explosive new approaches to...

This book is a powerful tool for understanding fiction and for transforming your creative writing and taking it to new levels of clarity,...

This is the companion volume to How Stories Really Work: Exploring the Physics of Fiction, which contains explosive new approaches to...

This book is a powerful tool for understanding fiction and for transforming your creative writing and taking it to new levels of clarity,...

There’s a lot of writing advice out there from a lot of people who have experience in screenwriting or novel writing and such like -...

Examining female characters in fiction, one can hardly escape noticing a particular pattern in many of them. Ranging from figures such as...

I resisted reading To Kill a Mockingbird for many years, believing that it must be a depressing novel, given that it is primarily about...

This is the companion volume to How Stories Really Work: Exploring the Physics of Fiction, which contains explosive new approaches to...

This book is a powerful tool for understanding fiction and for transforming your creative writing and taking it to new levels of clarity,...