Your Opening Image and Page One
As in the movies, the ideal opening image for novels and short fiction will be resonant and unique. Or, as a perspicacious agent once said […]
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Gifted Storytellers and the Small Screen
Whenever I ask myself, “How did the Duke of Marlborough personally lead all those winning battles and then handle the whole country’s international relations across […]
Transitions in Storytelling: Milestones and Memories
I’m reading a social history of the UK in the 1950s, Family Britain, which in the hands of a lesser writer might read like a […]
Writer’s Block Could Just Be Lassie at the Cliff Edge
From time to time writers may face blank pages and find their minds are blank, too. Some give up. That’s it, I’m at 30,000 words […]