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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...

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,...

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...

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...

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...

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...

One of the things that hard to believe about Doctor Strange , the 2016 American superhero film produced by Marvel Studios is that it is...

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...

As previously discussed, poetry lies at one end of a spectrum: poems are by definition highly precise, usually much shorter,...