

Successful Marketing Capmpaigns Part 2
Continuing our series on why certain marketing campaigns worked:  De Beers: A Diamond is Forever  In 1999, the magazine AdAge claimed...


Successful Marketing Campaigns Part 1
Some of these campaigns are not so recent. But in each case they struck home. Â A successful campaign is one which creates a motion...


The Antagonist Test
Is there anyone in your story who has the following attributes most of the time?  • The person portrays himself or herself as...


The Refusal to Change
Protagonists grow and change, learn and develop: the story is the soil in which they do this. They are the part of the tree which is...


'Being' versus 'Doing'
Some writers ask me ‘What’s the difference between the action and plot of a novel and its ideas or theme?’  In the terms described at...


Nuanced Thought and Binary Thought in Stories
In some Epics, one inhabits a binary world - good/bad, right/wrong, black/white etc. There are two ways out: the first way (the Old...


Signposts in Fiction
Have you ever read a book which, in the first few pages, fails to make it clear enough whose point of view in the story you should be...


Words, Words, Words
One of the primary channels between your shifting, ever-changing and elusive thought-world and the more fixed, slower-moving and fairly...


Subversion in Literature: Wuthering Heights
One of the most popular and highly esteemed novels in English literature, Wuthering Heights , published in 1847, sold very poorly at...

