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Steven Moffat’s finale to Series 9 of Doctor Who was possibly both a masterpiece and unintentionally revealing. There are a few unwritten...

I have been approached repeatedly about the so-called ‘secrets’ of creativity for as long as I can remember. The subject of creativity is...

This was the first book I wrote about the apparently hidden laws and prnciples behind the world of fiction. When I wrote that 'You have...

If you're really serious about writing, you need to know something about the secret language of fiction -how stories really work. We're...

Famous fantasy author J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth is unquestionably one of the most fully imagined worlds in all of literature, and...

Here’s an underlying principle which applies no matter what you’re writing. If you’re having trouble making things clear, it’s probably...

A working piece of fiction has to attract attention and hold it. The things that we have been accustomed to calling ‘characters’ must...

Writing romantic fiction can be tricky: there are obviously very successful models out there, and many find it all to easy to fall into...

Voyage to Venus or Perelandra as it was originally called, provides in its opening chapter a perfect example of an author progressing...

Effective fiction depends upon a) using words and symbols in a language the reader can understand in a way which he or she can grasp,...