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Like many of you, I’m suspicious of any modern attempt to adapt old classics, especially when fond memories are held of prior adaptations...

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....

Earlier, we spoke about a gravitational shift in which, instead of the writer falling into orbit around the reader, going round and round...

It’s our assertion in this series of articles that fiction is a primary mode of communication between human beings which predates any...

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...

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...

We’ve established that what readers are looking for (though many don’t realise it) and what editors and publishers are looking for (and...

Last time, we talked a little about symbolism. Many of you may have thought ‘Oh no, symbolism! I don’t understand that!’ or even ‘But my...