A Handy Glossary of Drama Terms
Drama has its own terminology. Understanding it helps to understand the plays and their meanings more fully. Here is a handy glossary of...
The Wisdom of E. M. Forster
Edward Morgan Forster (1 January 1879 – 7 June 1970), known as E. M. Forster, was an English novelist, short story writer and essayist....
Learn what a story really is...
Learn: • what a story really is • what it is actually doing to and for you and other readers ​ • the magnetic power that attracts readers...
Building Vocabulary
Anyone interested in improving their job opportunities, raising their IQs and boosting their success in the education system could...
H. G. Wells and 'The Red Room'
H. G. Wells. the scientific rationalist and author, famous for the novels The War of the Worlds, The Invisible Man, The Time Machine and...
'Voyage to Venus' and Transcendence
Of course, the opening chapter of Voyage to Venus, discussed earlier in this blog, is only that - the start of the adventure. Having...
Learn what a story really is...
Learn: • what a story really is • what it is actually doing to and for you and other readers ​ • the magnetic power that attracts readers...
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,...
Encouraging the 'Muse'
Writers, who is it that writes? The most infamous and annoying question asked of writers is ‘Where do you get your ideas from?’ It may be...