

The Goal of Good Editing
It’s a common assumption, and a workable one for now, that a story is always junior to its author. By this it is meant that an idea or...


Telling a Story
If you sat down by a fireside with a good friend on a winter’s evening to tell that friend a story that you felt was deeply important,...


7 Compelling Steps to Good Storytelling
A simple search on Google will give you a glimpse of the many thousands of books and blog posts that there are on writing. And on this...


8 Powerful Tips to Get a Grip as a Writer
You’ve decided to write? Lay these foundations and you’ll be able to build a career.  1. Treat writing as a job.  Arrive at your...


Six Strategies to Survive Emotionally as a Writer
Surviving as a writer is not just about working hard - you have to work smart. ‘You have to do more’ is not as workable as ‘You have to...


Five Tough Truths to Unleash the Writer Within You
You want to be a writer?  Here are five things you need to confront, if you want to succeed on that road:  1. Ask yourself ’Why am I...


The Forces Within Marvel's Film 'Doctor Strange'
One of the things that hard to believe about Doctor Strange , the 2016 American superhero film produced by Marvel Studios is that it is...


The Strange Case of Jekyll and Hyde
In many ways, Robert Louis Stevenson’s novella The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde  is an early example of an Irony, a precursor...


'All Shall Be Well' - the Conclusion of 'Little Gidding'
As previously discussed, poetry lies at one end of a spectrum: poems are by definition highly precise, usually much shorter,...