Myth and the 'Now' Part Seven: More Archetypes
Continuing from yesterday's article: The Shadow Protagonist This figure also appears across the whole range of fiction: he or she is like...
Myth and the 'Now' Part Six: Archetypes
In our ongoing series about Myth, we’ve already covered a lot of ground. But you might feel as though you’re climbing a few mountains...
Myth and the 'Now' Part Five: Looking Into The Night
Continuing our series on the power of myth… It’s very easy to fall for the modern temptation to try to explain something from where we...
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5 Steps to a One-Page Business Plan as a Writer
As a writer, especially as one who is pondering the self-publishing route, it can be enormously helpful to think of what you’re doing as...
Myth and the 'Now' Part Four: Creation
If myth is poetry, and the purpose of myth is to explain, as directly and as potently as the myth-maker can, the origins of the world as...
Disaster Redeemed: The Lifeline of Tolkien's Landscapes
It can often seem that nothing can redeem the great disasters that occur within our lives; yet there are always a few small things. When...
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Learn: • what a story really is • what it is actually doing to and for you and other readers • the magnetic power that attracts readers...
'Rejection' or 'Reassignment'?
As I’m in the process at this writing of reading through dozens of submissions for several upcoming Clarendon House Publications...