Monday Motivation: How to write when you’re completely out of it
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 […]
Monday Motivation: The Writing Instincts of D.H. Lawrence
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 […]
Monday Motivation: An eternal question: plot or characters?
Whatever creative narrative you’re writing, the challenge is to establish a balance between character and story. Readers are happy if the writer uses story simply as the washing line on […]
Monday Motivation: Six strategies for generating drama and suspense
The most successful drama series of the year in the UK offers us a number of insights into the variety of means writers have at their disposal whenever they need […]
Monday Motivation: Learn to fly with the seven cygnets of Priory Marina
The cygnets of Priory Marina Lake are learning to fly. Every day for the past week or two, seven of the offspring of our resident swans have taken to flapping […]
Monday Motivation: The choice between trumpets and piccolos
In life, we prefer to avoid conflictual situations, ducking out of confrontations, avoiding arguments, generally seeking peaceful co-existence with our fellows. In fiction, by contrast, where [...]
Monday Motivation: The key to great stories? Great scenes
Life is a narrative composed of multiple overlapping stories. This is true for every one of the eight billion or so there are of us. Each of those stories can […]
