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I've always been fascinated by fiction -what it is, why it works, why we read it. ​ I wanted to know why certain books appealed to me,...

1. Core Ideas   At the heart of whatever it is you want to communicate as a writer is a core, whether that’s a very definite idea that...

Real secrets of writing a good story and getting a publisher to pay at least some attention to it are contained in the book How Stories...

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

Read the list below of works that met with rejection long enough to kill them, except that they persisted.   It's a good idea to always...

It could be argued that the goal of any kind of writing is to effect change upon the reader.   The goal of simple, argumentative writing...

How do you define ‘business’? Buying and selling? Doing deals? Money changing hands for something?   Any and all businesses, to be proper...

Having revisited Narnia in its past in The Magician's Nephew,  Lewis succeeded in reinforcing its symbology by giving powerful and...

Humour works on surprise.   It’s all about the ‘juxtaposition of inappropriateness’, which is a complex phrase describing the exaggerated...