A Vital Point to Consider If You're Trying to Get Published Part 23
There are a number of strands that can be woven together here. We have established in an earlier article that you, the writer, are the...
A Vital Point To Consider If You're Trying to Get Published Part 22
If you’ve been following this series of articles, you may be looking at your own work in a slightly different light. You may have...
A Vital Point to Consider If You're Trying to Get Published Part 21
We’ve established that what readers are looking for (though many don’t realise it) and what editors and publishers are looking for (and...
A Vital Point To Consider If You're Trying to Get Published Part 20
Last time, we talked a little about symbolism. Many of you may have thought ‘Oh no, symbolism! I don’t understand that!’ or even ‘But my...
A Vital Point to Consider If You're Trying To Get Published, Part 19
The other thing you can do to give your story depth and a three-dimensional quality is be symbolic. Using symbolism is extending metaphor...
A Vital Point to Consider If You're Trying to Get Published Part 18
The simplest way to build a ‘flat’ story — one which primarily uses the mechanism of ‘Then this happened, then this happened…’ to drive a...
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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...
A Vital Point to Consider If You're Trying to Get Published Part 17
We can try to sum up our journey into the land of Theme in the following way: Most fiction that is written is two-dimensional. It is...
A Vital Point To Consider If You're Trying To Get Published: Part 16
Addressing some concerns: Does ‘finding your theme(s)’ involve sitting in a corner catching up on all the newspapers and current events...