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...