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When you think about genres like science fiction, fantasy or horror, what are the first names that come to mind? Asimov? Tolkien? King?...

I’m going to show you here an excerpt from the beginning of Charles Dickens’ masterpiece of a short story, 'The Signalman'. Then I’m...

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

Being Sheffield-born, and now living just outside that city in the glorious Yorkshire countryside, it’s a little difficult separating out...

I read almost every day about writers struggling in the marketplace, either to get their books noticed and accepted by publishers, or,...

Many writers enter the marketplace trembling. They feel that they are leaving their comfortable world of storytelling - when it 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...

Here’s an exercise for you. Take the following passage (from Jerome K. Jerome’s book, Three Men in a Boat) and see if you can focus only...

You may have seen me mention something called a Lifestyle Consultancy. Some of you may be wondering exactly what that means. If you’ve...