

10 Tips To Help You Get Published
Real secrets of writing a good story and getting a publisher to pay at least some attention to it are contained in the book How Stories...


3 Embarrassing Realisations as a Fiction Writer
It seems that there are two broad breeds of fiction writer: those who write, and those who think about being a writer and perhaps...


Dealing with Rejection
Read the list below of works that met with rejection long enough to kill them, except that they persisted. Â It's a good idea to always...


Aristotle and the 3 Methods of Persuasion
It could be argued that the goal of any kind of writing is to effect change upon the reader. Â The goal of simple, argumentative writing...


The Secret Language of the Customer
How do you define ‘business’? Buying and selling? Doing deals? Money changing hands for something?  Any and all businesses, to be proper...


'The Last Battle' to Get Readers Into Heaven
Having revisited Narnia in its past in The Magician's Nephew, Â Lewis succeeded in reinforcing its symbology by giving powerful and...


How Humour Works
Humour works on surprise.  It’s all about the ‘juxtaposition of inappropriateness’, which is a complex phrase describing the exaggerated...


Lewis, the Mediaeval Mind and Parallel Universes
In most people’s minds today, there is a common misunderstanding about the Middle Ages, based on two or three accepted ‘facts’ which are...



