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As we saw in an earlier article,‘The Daleks’, originally aired in 1963/4, came at a pivotal point in the development of Doctor Who .  ...

The first episode of the fifty-year-old series Doctor Who  had established a unique set of parameters. The juxtaposition of...

Has anyone noticed the ever-present 'comic companion’ in successful stories? He or she is virtually the same figure from tale to tale.  ...

One can read all the ’How to Write a Story’ guides that one can (including How Stories Really Work ) but actually sitting down to write a...

I’ve said earlier that there was one way for DC to go which might work in terms of out-creating Marvel: go ‘super-grim’, in an effort to...

Dickens is an author who can make you realise what reading is for .   Great Expectations  was on the reading list for teenagers in their...

Obviously you’ve got goals for your writing - right?   Not just the goal of penning a best-seller and being able to retire on the...

It was several years after I had first read The Lord of the Rings  that I realised that its author, J.R.R. Tolkien, was a close friend of...

An incomplete but workable glossary for anyone pursuing an interest in literature:   Adventure novel:  A novel where exciting events are...