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A protagonist and an antagonist can be basically the same figure, walking down different roads.   A protagonist starts with a loss which...

90% of writers - those that actually get started on writing - sit down and simply write scene after scene straight from their...

One good place to start as a writer is in thinking about readers. There's a mental process which you can go through to help you focus on...

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...