

15 Steps to Produce an Anthology
I thought that some of you might be interested in the process of putting an anthology together, either because you are thinking about...


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...


The Real World Wide Web
One evening, many years ago, I was in a room listening to someone describe an event in their lives. This person was a known compulsive...


Editing Part 2: What the Editor Should Be Looking For
I recently posted something on Facebook to do with a babysitter. You may have seen this ‘doing the rounds’ on social media, but if you...


What Writers and Poets are Doing
What Writers and Poets are Doing I think that writers and poets vastly underestimate what it is that they do. As human beings brought up...


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...


How to Grow a Group Part Three
Today’s socio-cultural model could be argued to be based on the drive or urge to find the satisfaction and sense of ‘place’ which earlier...


How to Grow a Group Part Two
So what are we trying to do when we say ‘grow’? I’ve argued that the compulsion to grow commercially or economically is just that - a...


How to Grow a Group Part One
In recent articles I have discussed at some length both the need to grow the Inner Circle Writers’ Group - now at over 10,000 members and...

