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Well-crafted characters virtually write their own story   Once your character is fleshed out, your story virtually writes itself. As we...

Rather than go on about all the rules of grammar and spelling and punctuation and syntax and all the rest -there are plenty of other...

If you were receiving personal tutoring from me, I’d be asking questions like "Tell me what you are trying to say in this bit. Can you...

Let’s assume you’ve grabbed sufficient attention by pulling the reader in, you’ve laid out what your theme or argument will be, and...

Let’s imagine that you have successfully written an opening sentence which at the very least doesn’t push the reader away. Perhaps you’ve...

You probably have about fifteen seconds to grab your reader’s attention, whether you’re writing an essay or a story. Poems have even less...

During the Second World War, thousands of children were evacuated from their homes due to the Nazi air raids on London. Lewis, who lived...

The character of Galadriel is an instance of Tolkien’s retroactive imagination at work. Not originally envisaged in his first tales of...