

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...


How to Write Your Author Prospectus Part Six
Having reached this point with writers, one usually finds that they are capable of writing decent stories which can get attention and...


How to Write Your Author Prospectus Part Five
OK, so we have a rough sketch of your ideal readers, and a fairly good idea of what you want to write about and why you want to write it....


How to Write Your Author Prospectus Part Four
We’re taking an excursion outside the culture in which we grew up in order to explore what it has to say about how our imaginations...


Chaucer and the Human Condition
As an example of how differently the mediaeval mind thought about concepts like mental activity and emotion — and yet produced insights...


How the Mediaevals Thought About Thought
In the world of art and artistic creation, a fundamental confusion often occurs. We’ve all been brought up in a culture heavily...


How to Write Your Author Prospectus Part Three
If you’ve been following this series, and applying its recommendations, you should by now have two sets of data. The first is a...


How to Write Your Author Prospectus Part Two
So from yesterday’s article you might have developed a vague notion of who reads your stories or who might read them in the future. But...


How to Write Your Author Prospectus Part One
We’re going to dive straight into putting together a prospectus, the primary aim of which is to sell yourself to yourself. In other...

