The Science of Story

So listen, people. I didn't just write The Story Book . I originally got published for writing humorous travel books. To encourage y...

When a writer gets inspired, he takes the world he wishes to communicate and telescopes it down, through the limiting lens of language, into...

Many writers fear story theory. "It will damage my natural talent!" they cry. And I understand entirely. As I return to writing fi...

One of the first traps that a writer often falls into in their early career looks like this. Most writers get confidence in their early wr...

Leading on from my last post on The Subtext of Character Growth , I would like to refine - and hopefully clarify - the information by using ...

Story theorists down the centuries have faced one recurring problem. They discover early on their journey to becoming a guru - in a eureka ...

Here's a little story about an actor who brought his own ideas to an audition... I just had a fascinating weekend with Craig Hinde ...

WARNING - Contains spoilers! Hugo - a `U` certificate (MPAA `G` in the USA) film that is as entrancing for a 7-year-old as it is for a 70...

People seemed to rather like my somewhat academic post on Reception Theory . So let's see if we can push it any further and still get a ...

I was recently privileged to spend some time with Joanna Penn - an author who has taken full advantage of new media to provide some of the b...

Many of the published authors I know - quite understandably - like to give the impression that they are fully professional, but the truth i...

In case it's not obvious from the title, this blog is about Discipline. I regularly catch writers out at my seminars. They have fantasti...

Due entirely to the lovely words written about me by Jenny Long in this month's Writing Magazine letters page (thank you, Jenny, if you ...