More Comfort for Rejected Writers
Just thought you’d like more examples of famous works which had to go through the Wall of Rejection first: From a rejection slip for...
Three Tips for Coping with Rejection as a Writer
1. Read the list below of works that met with rejection long enough to kill them, except that they persisted. 2. Always have something...
Agatha Christie's Secret
Agatha Christie has sold more books than any other author on the planet, with estimations ranging from a hundred million to two billion...
Five Very Practical Tips for Unleashing the Writer Within You
For anyone who has always wanted to be a writer, the obstacles can sometimes seem impossible to overcome. It’s not a question of ‘How can...
Teaching 'Macbeth'
In the early 2000s, while teaching English Literature to a group of 14 year olds, I performed an experiment in two parts. Firstly, using...
How Narnia Became a Fully-Fledged World
In class at school, in 1971, I sat next to a girl I’d never spoken to and had no real intention of getting to know. During a reading...