More Successful Actions as a Writer
Here are some more practical successful actions as a writer, tried and tested! 1. Treat writing as a job. Arrive at your writing space in...
A Practical Manual to Transform Your Fiction
This is the companion volume to How Stories Really Work: Exploring the Physics of Fiction, which contains explosive new approaches to...
Marvel versus DC, Round 2
I’ve argued before in this blog that Marvel have the upper hand on DC in terms of a successful cinematic venture stretching out into the...
A Philological Imagination 1
Tolkien’s imagination worked in a philological way. Apart from the well-known fact that his created world of Middle earth grew out of...
Some Magical Quotes About Literature
The best people to listen to when it comes to the power and magic of literature are authors. Here is a selection of some of their...
The Significance of 'The Ark in Space'
ABC TV in Australia must have had some kind of commercial relationship with the BBC, because periodically BBC programmes appeared and...
The Power of Tropes
As we have seen in How Stories Really Work , there are four basic genres, each growing out of the kind of effect a writer wants to...
The Imagination Analysis
In the volume How Stories Really Work -A Practical Manual to Transform Your Fiction, there’s an exercise call the Imagination Analysis....
A Little Snippet from 'How Stories Really Work'
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 Ups and Downs of Characters
If we go back to mythology and folklore, the hero of a story can have superhuman qualities and is often semi-divine in origin - in...