

6 Points to Spark Creativity
I’ve written extensively about creativity in the past in relation to education in particular, but here I’m going to adapt one of those...


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...


5 Steps to Create Young Readers
I’ve written a whole book about helping children to read. More than just getting them to read, though, the idea is to help them to enjoy...


Myth and the 'Now' Part Twenty One: The Present Day
Surrounded by an Ironic culture in which many denizens of both Oxford and Cambridge had been swayed by modernism, secularism and even...


5 Basics You Need To Put In As A Writer
I’ve written elsewhere about a survey I did a few years ago with a class of 13 year olds and how it revealed some interesting things. One...


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...


Myth and the 'Now' Part Twenty: The Turning Point
The ‘Journey of the Magi’ was the first of a series of poems T. S. Eliot later grouped together as the 'Ariel Poems' and was published in...


Myth and the 'Now' Part Nineteen: What Comes After Irony?
It seems we’re all doomed, then. As we have progressed through this series of articles so far, literature has moved through Frye’s modes...


3 Steps to Achieving Your Goals
I got to thinking the other day how I had actually managed to achieve a great many personal goals in my life, and how that had resulted...

