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

I used to be a big fan of the Middle Ages. If I had had a time machine during my childhood, I would probably have tried to visit England...

It’s enormously difficult to shake off a cultural inheritance in which one has been submersed for one’s whole life. For about the last...

Darwin is seen as the source of the idea of ‘survival of the fittest’, but it is a notion that expresses only part of human nature —...

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

Readers of my book How Stories Really Work will be familiar with my assertion that we live in an Ironic Age culturally. This means that...

If it’s true that we live in an Ironic Age culturally — in which subversion is the basic principle, and where previously accepted norms...

If the above diagram resembles the blueprint for a machine, that’s understandable — because that’s what it is. It describes the progress...