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1. Core Ideas At the heart of whatever it is you want to communicate as a writer, whether that’s a very definite idea that you want...

Let’s be frank: the real secrets of writing a good story and getting a publisher to pay at least some attention to it are contained in...

When you’re trying to make a living as a writer, it can seem at times that you live in a pretty merciless world. Being a writer is not...

Gawain and the Green Knight is a late 14th-century Middle English Arthurian romance. It draws on Welsh, Irish and English stories, as...

'The best of a book is not the thought which it contains, but the thought which it suggests; just as the charm of music dwells not in the...

As you can read much more about in How Stories Really Work , protagonists are meant to be interesting. In fact, being interesting is both...

Antagonists don’t often get the attention that they deserve. Or rather, that they feel they deserve. And that’s the root of their...

Being a writer is about all kinds of rules -rules about subject/verb agreement, punctuation, grammar, spelling- which you did actually...

William Blake (28 November 1757 – 12 August 1827) was an English poet, painter, and printmaker who is now considered to be a key figure...