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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...

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

A story emerges from what we have been calling the ‘heart’ of a writer, progresses through that writer’s mind onto a page or screen, and...

As we have asserted, a story makes its way from a writer’s heart (whatever that is, imagination, perception, the unconscious, and so...

I want to describe to you a sequence which may help you to reduce to simplicities a set of concepts which is usually laced with...