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Such a lot of the emphasis about ‘succeeding’ as a writer these days is on the marketing aspect. Many writers, probably the majority,...

Still struggling with the idea of ‘theme’? It’s not the way most authors write — hardly anyone starts off with a rational concept and...

Let’s say you’ve written a story, or perhaps a whole range of stories, and never considered this thing called ‘theme’ before. Is all...

Based on one or two responses I’ve had to the earlier articles in this sequence, some clarification may be required. That’s because many...

I may by now have slowly brought you round to the idea that there has to be more to your story than your story in order to be successful....

Learn: • what a story really is • what it is actually doing to and for you and other readers ​ • the magnetic power that attracts readers...

We have established — or rather, asserted, as I am aware that there may be disagreements with this — that a primary reason why certain...

In the last article, I asserted that, for the most part, the gatekeepers of traditional publishing tend to be trained in English...

I made a point recently about my reading through submissions and finding that many stories had been submitted which didn’t fit the...