

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


Your Biggest Challenge as a Writer - and What To Do About It, Part 3
In the last couple of articles, we’ve seen how the writer’s biggest challenge, by survey result, has to do with time and procrastination,...


Your Biggest Challenge as a Writer - and What To Do About It, Part 2
I once worked as a management consultant in the heart of London. I had an office just off Berkeley Square in Mayfair, and would...


Your Biggest Challenge as a Writer - and What To Do About It, Part 1
I recently did a survey of writers, asking them what their biggest challenge was in relation to their writing. A few answered that they...


Third Person Narration - A Football Analogy Continued
Continuing with our analogy between narrative points of view in fiction and a football match, we can see that, once we step off the...


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


First Person Narration - a Football Analogy Continued
Carrying on with our football analogy from earlier, we saw that what is called ‘stream of consciousness’ in fiction would be similar to...


Stream of Consciousness - a Football* Analogy
* for American readers, the ‘football’ to which this article refers is the original English game, which you know as ‘soccer’ - though the...


How to Fall In Love (The 'Laws' of Spamming, Part 5)
How do you build affinity with anyone? Well, it usually begins with finding something in common - either a working background, or some...

