

A Vital Point to Consider If You're Trying to Get Published Part 17
We can try to sum up our journey into the land of Theme in the following way: Most fiction that is written is two-dimensional. It is...


A Vital Point To Consider If You're Trying To Get Published: Part 16
Addressing some concerns: Does ‘finding your theme(s)’ involve sitting in a corner catching up on all the newspapers and current events...


An Interview with Myself about Samantha Hamilton's 'Welcome to Blekeleigh Court'
Here’s an interview I did with myself (well, there was no one else around and I was excited…) about the recently released gem, Welcome to...


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...


A Vital Point To Consider If You're Trying To Get Published: Part 15
Fiction writers learn their letters as children like anyone else; then their word vocabulary expands rapidly during their early years in...


A Vital Point To Consider If You're Trying To Get Published: Part 14
You’ll often see in conventional writing advice the maxim that in order to learn how to be a better writer you have to write. It makes...


A Vital Point To Consider If You're Trying To Get Published: Part 13
We’re attempting to establish what you are trying to say through your fiction. The purpose of this is to enhance and expand your work so...


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...


A Vital Point To Consider If You're Trying To Get Published: Part 12
So you want to boost the ‘quality of form’ in your story? You want to progress towards a three-dimensional, more widely appealing and...