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It seems that there are two broad breeds of fiction writer: those who write, and those who think about being a writer and perhaps...

Canadian Herman Northrop Frye (July 14, 1912 – January 23, 1991) was one of the most influential literary critics and theorists of the...

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...

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...

Marvel Studios President Kevin Feige has master-minded the apparently unstoppable behemoth which we all know as the Marvel Cinematic...

From How Stories Really Work : Any work of fiction lies somewhere on this scale, which we can call the Spectrum of 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...

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...