

Editing Part 2: What the Editor Should Be Looking For
I recently posted something on Facebook to do with a babysitter. You may have seen this ‘doing the rounds’ on social media, but if you...


What Writers and Poets are Doing
What Writers and Poets are Doing I think that writers and poets vastly underestimate what it is that they do. As human beings brought up...


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...


How to Grow a Group Part Three
Today’s socio-cultural model could be argued to be based on the drive or urge to find the satisfaction and sense of ‘place’ which earlier...


How to Grow a Group Part Two
So what are we trying to do when we say ‘grow’? I’ve argued that the compulsion to grow commercially or economically is just that - a...


How to Grow a Group Part One
In recent articles I have discussed at some length both the need to grow the Inner Circle Writers’ Group - now at over 10,000 members and...


The Wisdom of Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Anne Spencer Lindbergh (née Morrow, 1906 – 2001) was an acclaimed American author, whose books and articles spanned poetry and...


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 Prejudice of Amplitude Part Two
Having established the idea that there might be something called a ‘prejudice of amplitude’, a notion that if something is bigger it must...