Myth and the 'Now' Part Twenty Two: The Monomyth
I’ve always liked simplicity. To me, when examining any area in any detail, if my mind is asking questions such as ‘But why is this so?’...
Learn what a story really is...
Learn: • what a story really is • what it is actually doing to and for you and other readers • the magnetic power that attracts readers...
What Is An 'Author Platform'? And What Does It Have To Do With You?
You’ve probably heard the term ‘author platform’. You may not be quite sure what it means. Part of the reason that it is hard to define...
The Wit of G. K. Chesterton
Gilbert Keith Chesterton, KC*SG (Knight Commander with Star of the Pontifical Equestrian Order of St. Gregory the Great) (1874 – 1936)...
6 Points to Spark Creativity
I’ve written extensively about creativity in the past in relation to education in particular, but here I’m going to adapt one of those...
Learn what a story really is...
Learn: • what a story really is • what it is actually doing to and for you and other readers • the magnetic power that attracts readers...
5 Steps to Create Young Readers
I’ve written a whole book about helping children to read. More than just getting them to read, though, the idea is to help them to enjoy...
Myth and the 'Now' Part Twenty One: The Present Day
Surrounded by an Ironic culture in which many denizens of both Oxford and Cambridge had been swayed by modernism, secularism and even...
5 Basics You Need To Put In As A Writer
I’ve written elsewhere about a survey I did a few years ago with a class of 13 year olds and how it revealed some interesting things. One...