The central idea in a story has different names: through line, spine, narrative thread among others. Essentially, a story is about a series of events that happen. Usually, you have one protagonist or hero and the story is the journey we go on with him...
Sometimes it’s hard to prioritise. Out of all the things you could be doing right now, is sitting down to do your writing or your creative project the best thing you could do? I’ve certainly been grappling with this issue. At the beginning of the year,...
There isn’t any right way to write. Often the tense we choose to write in is personal I find writing in present tense really hard; yet an author friend always writes in the present. Some stories lend themselves to the present tense: say for example, if you are writing from the point of view of...
Lots of people said nice things to me at my London book launch but the nicest thing had nothing to do with my book. Jane Smith, a librarian from Concordia Lutheran College in Toowoomba, Australia, happened to be in London that night so I asked her...