A Reading of the Opening to 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 in...
'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....
Some Comments About Drama In Schools
Expecting a student to be able to write sensibly about a play directly from a reading of the text alone is like expecting someone to know...
'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 Excitement of Writing
You’re a writer, or you want to be one. You write, or want to write, something that someone else wants to read, wants to find fulfilling,...
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....
The Power of Fiction
Consider the most powerful, memorable moments in your own reading. Think for a moment about the scenes in your favourite books or films...
'Doctor Who: An Unearthly Child' 2
The rest of the first adventure of Doctor Who, commonly known by its opening episode ‘An Unearthly Child’, is comparatively...
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...