A Vital Point to Consider If You're Trying to Get Published Part 26
Last time, we worked out a strategy for you as a writer: ‘Servicing readers' existing need for thematic elements while building up a...
A Vital Point to Consider If You're Trying to Get Published Part 25
We’ve established over recent articles that the thing that attracts readers — including editors looking for stories to publish— is theme....
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A Review of BBC TV’s 2019 adaptation of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol [with spoilers]
Like many of you, I’m suspicious of any modern attempt to adapt old classics, especially when fond memories are held of prior adaptations...
A Different Way of Doing Things Part 9
To shift the gravity so that readers are pulled toward you and your work(s), you need to write a book which has built-in sellability....
A Different Way of Doing Things Part 8
Earlier, we spoke about a gravitational shift in which, instead of the writer falling into orbit around the reader, going round and round...
A Vital Point To Consider If You're Trying to Get Published Part 24
It’s our assertion in this series of articles that fiction is a primary mode of communication between human beings which predates any...
A Vital Point to Consider If You're Trying to Get Published Part 23
There are a number of strands that can be woven together here. We have established in an earlier article that you, the writer, are the...
A Vital Point To Consider If You're Trying to Get Published Part 22
If you’ve been following this series of articles, you may be looking at your own work in a slightly different light. You may have...