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It was common practice in schools a few years ago, and may still be, that, in order to ‘do’ Shakespeare, the teacher would play Baz...

Graham Greene’s novel Brighton Rock is an interesting example of an Irony, a story which draws its power from the classic patterns and...

When you think about writing your book (or story or whatever it is you’re working on) does it initially seem to you like a mountain over...

See if you can immediately write down your goal as a writer. It might be that you want to make a lot of money from writing; perhaps you...

Now we reach the moment of truth. Does your fiction achieve its desired result? You can only really tell this from completed works. Think...

’Do not laugh!’ Tolkien famously wrote in a letter to Milton Waldman ‘But once upon a time (my crest has long since fallen) I had a mind...

Style is the way in which a writer uses words and other devices right there on the page in front of the reader.   Whereas Ideas,...

If we accept momentarily that there is a female companion archetype in fiction, as outlined in How Stories Really Work , then it’s worth...