What Resonates With Readers?
What resonates with readers?  Fear.  No, I don’t mean that you all have to rush off and write horror novels - though I know one famous...
Build Your Own Ocean
Have you reached a point with your activities as a writer where you now have written your novel and have even perhaps posted it online -...
Effective Selling
What would you need in order to be able to effectively ‘sell’ something to others?  Self-evidently, perhaps, you would need some...
'Once Upon a Time...'
’Once upon a time…’  Whenever a story-teller says those words, what happens in the minds of his or her audience?  A story-teller is a...
The Components of a Successful Story
A great story begins with an idea. With foresight, an author who is going to be successful might glimpse the satisfaction that...
Making Time
The difference between finding  time for your writing and making  time for your writing is that when you are just finding time, you are...
Finding Time
There are two different approaches to getting more time to write: finding time and making time. Â Finding time is the lesser of the two....
On Writing Books
’I want to do something splendid… Something heroic or wonderful that won’t be forgotten after I’m dead… I think I shall write books.’ ―...
Two Ways of Writing Stories
If the truth about stories is that they are like icebergs, with 80% of what makes them work lying beneath the surface, then we can use...