

Hyper-Critical Situation # 1
There is a hyper-critical situation which comes before all others for writers, and that is that, though you desperately want to be a...


The Golden Age of Independent Publishing
Markets of various kinds all around the world have been transformed by the rise of the internet, and the world of publishing is no...


The Fascination of Fiction
I've always been fascinated by fiction -what it is, why it works, why we read it. I wanted to know why certain books appealed to me,...


The Seven Pillars of Successful Writing
1. Core Ideas At the heart of whatever it is you want to communicate as a writer is a core, whether that’s a very definite idea that...


10 Tips To Help You Get Published
Real secrets of writing a good story and getting a publisher to pay at least some attention to it are contained in the book How Stories...


3 Embarrassing Realisations as a Fiction Writer
It seems that there are two broad breeds of fiction writer: those who write, and those who think about being a writer and perhaps...


Dealing with Rejection
Read the list below of works that met with rejection long enough to kill them, except that they persisted. It's a good idea to always...


Aristotle and the 3 Methods of Persuasion
It could be argued that the goal of any kind of writing is to effect change upon the reader. The goal of simple, argumentative writing...


The Secret Language of the Customer
How do you define ‘business’? Buying and selling? Doing deals? Money changing hands for something? Any and all businesses, to be proper...

