Some Speculations on the Global Village
For most people in England in the Middle Ages, life centred around the village. The village was usually part of an estate called a manor...
'The Isles' - What You Never Knew About the History of Britain
Have you ever had a book on your bookshelf for almost twenty years before you decide to actually sit down and begin reading it? In the...
The Words of W. H. Auden
Wystan Hugh Auden (1907 – 1973) was an English-American poet whose poetry was noted for its technicality and its political content as...
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 readers...
Pride and Prejudice - A Successful Adaptation
I had the great pleasure the other week of getting to rewatch the BBC television 1995 adaptation of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice,...
The Biggest Problem That Publishers Have With Writers - Part Five
Okay, so if you’ve been following this series you’ll have picked up on the general idea that overnight success is probably not on the...
The Biggest Problem That Publishers Have With Writers - Part Four
The biggest problem publishers face with writers is that writers expect overnight success and often don’t have a realistic view of the...
The Biggest Problem That Publishers Have With Writers - Part Three
In Parts One and Two we covered the harsh realities of building a career as a writer. We reached the end of Year Two without much money...
The Biggest Problem That Publishers Have With Writers - Part Two
We’re talking about the biggest problem that publishers have with writers — not technical errors or anything like that, but the fact that...