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The antagonist in fiction is that character who has adopted a fixed solution to an inner vacuum or emptiness or threat.   This fixed...

Your job as an author is to remove yourself from the story completely. But you do this by progressively removing a number of other...

In practice, good editors are doing a very simple thing: they are recovering an author’s true potential from within a work where it has...

It’s a common assumption, and a workable one for now, that a story is always junior to its author. By this it is meant that an idea or...

If you sat down by a fireside with a good friend on a winter’s evening to tell that friend a story that you felt was deeply important,...

A simple search on Google will give you a glimpse of the many thousands of books and blog posts that there are on writing. And on this...

You’ve decided to write? Lay these foundations and you’ll be able to build a career.   1. Treat writing as a job.   Arrive at your...

Surviving as a writer is not just about working hard - you have to work smart. ‘You have to do more’ is not as workable as ‘You have to...

You want to be a writer?   Here are five things you need to confront, if you want to succeed on that road:   1. Ask yourself ’Why am I...