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Don’t Start with Back Story – How to Work out How much the Reader Should Know and When

Start the reader in “the room where it happens” advises Allison K Williams in a craft essay published in Brevity, the free online literary journal of concise non-fiction. She has … Continue reading →

January 26, 2026 · 3 Comments

You can learn a lot from films…

On Fridays I am returning to some of my favourite posts from the past. To paraphrase BBC radio: this is your chance to read again…This post comes from April 2013 … Continue reading →

March 13, 2015 · 2 Comments
seven deadly sins of short story writing

The Seven Deadly Sins of Short Story Writing and how to avoid them

This post grew out of an article I originally wrote for the Hysterectomy Association when I was writer in residence of their annual writing competition earlier this year. I recently … Continue reading →

October 6, 2014 · 12 Comments
Scriptwriting can help solve plot problems in your novel and short story

Scriptwriting can help solve plot problems in your novel and short story

Different writing disciplines aren’t locked into tight compartments. If you’re writing a novel I think it helps to read poetry for the richness of the language and the way it … Continue reading →

September 21, 2012 · 4 Comments

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