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From the darkness come two poles, light and dark; between those poles archetypes form, moving into orbit around one pole or the other. In...

Learn: • what a story really is • what it is actually doing to and for you and other readers ​ • the magnetic power that attracts readers...

Writing is a peculiar field, and one of its oddities is that its practitioners are permitted - even expected, in some cases - to present...

I’ve noticed a trend of questions recently in some writers’ groups regarding the definitions of ‘genre’ and ‘literary’ fiction. Quite...

Earlier on, we looked at Northrop Frye's development of what he called fictional ‘modes’, each determined by the relationship of the hero...

Learn: • what a story really is • what it is actually doing to and for you and other readers ​ • the magnetic power that attracts readers...

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...

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...

We saw in a recent article in this series that the powerful images and motifs of Myth could be found in different forms in what Northrop...