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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...

Three problems then: 1. As writers, we deal in intangibles - strange, emotional, illogical fabrications which even we don’t completely...

How do authors get published? To acquire some sort of answer to that all-important query, we have to dig into the question a little. What...

Apart from the level of vocabulary - whether a set of words is too simple, average or too advanced for a corresponding set of readers -...

There’s another potential obstacle that arises between the writer and the reader which is occasionally so obvious that it is overlooked,...

Lots of telling, rather than showing, pushes the reader out of the story and slows things right down; showing, rather than telling, pulls...

You have probably heard the maxim ‘Show, Don’t Tell’ when it comes to writing fiction. I’m reading a book at the moment (which shall...

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

There was once an ad, a social media group, an online magazine and a book. The ad’s main advantage was that it travelled far and wide,...