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Creative writing is not, as some suppose, an arcane art over which only the select few are ever granted mastery, or to which there is access via a magic key, a secret skill available only to the [...]

The usual suspects are talking up The Power of the Dog as a likely Oscar winner, and Benedict Cumberbatch an Oscar favourite for his role as the cowboy Phil Burbank. For Jane Campion, whose The [...]

After a long break, Trish and I have taken to the River Great Ouse again on our kayak. In summer, we’d venture out onto the river four or five days a week, paddling our way up as far as the town [...]

I have been fighting – rather feebly – a bad cold all week. It has left me a little whacked – and a little frustrated. What to write about when […]

It’s a perennial question – and it came up again on the webinar we hosted last week in The Hero’s Journey. What is more desirable: that you plan your story […]

One of the little-regarded spin-off advantages that writers enjoy, is that, through their writing, and through the stories they fabulate, they exercise a skill essential to us all, writers and [...]