Symbolism in 'To Kill a Mockingbird'
It's a little known fact to most school students who have to read To Kill a Mockingbird that Harper Lee submitted her manuscript to the...
The Sorrowful State of the Villain
Purely virtuous heroes are hard for us to feel much affinity for. What’s interesting, though, is that as we move away from the complete...
The Magic Behind the Marvel Cinematic Universe
Marvel Studios President Kevin Feige has master-minded the apparently unstoppable behemoth which we all know as the Marvel Cinematic...
The Spectrum of Fiction
From How Stories Really Work : Any work of fiction lies somewhere on this scale, which we can call the Spectrum of Fiction: ...
The 7 Pillars of Successful Fiction
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...
10 Tips to Help You Get Published
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...
Making a Living as a Writer
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...
In Search of Gawain's Green Chapel
Gawain and the Green Knight is a late 14th-century Middle English Arthurian romance. It draws on Welsh, Irish and English stories, as...
