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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...

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...

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...

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

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

Villains in fiction have a lot in common: of course they are generally destructive, but on close examination we find a bewildering array...

Best selling author James Patterson tells us that the most common mistake writers make is not creating an outline and assures students...

In the pantheon of archetypal figures who appear and re-appear regularly in fiction of all kinds, there is another kind of antagonist....

The Avengers , not to be confused with Marvel Comics’ superhero franchise, was what has become known as a ‘spy-fi’ British television...