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We’re attempting to establish what you are trying to say through your fiction. The purpose of this is to enhance and expand your work so...

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

So you want to boost the ‘quality of form’ in your story? You want to progress towards a three-dimensional, more widely appealing and...

Conventional advice on how to write better fiction dwells on those well-worn items, character and plot. We’re supposed to have ‘fully...

There is probably more than one theme, then, in any piece of any length written by a writer who more or less knows the basics of writing....

Let’s say that you are trying to isolate the themes that your fiction deals with. Two things that might help: 1. It might not be possible...

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...