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Metaphors are particularly prevalent in poetry, naturally, as poetry concentrates language into maximum vacuum power. That’s almost a...

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

Scientists claim that it’s quite likely that all galaxies swirl around gigantic black holes at their centre. They even claim to have...

Metaphor is as much a part of language as words; it’s as much a part of human thinking as thinking itself. If you have been tracking with...

Let’s assume that you would like to write a story which attracted as many readers as possible and affected them as strongly as it could,...

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

All successful fiction is vacuum-driven. That means that incompletenesses, emptinesses, holes, missing things and the like lie at the...

We’re looking at fiction defined as ‘an operation of ideas built around vacuums’. That’s where we define ‘vacuums’ as needs, desires,...

A need, a desire, a yearning, a longing, has the power to draw the person who has it towards the object of that need, desire, yearning or...