Not having a Story Theme Makes For a ‘So What?’ Story Too many stories with glowing potential fail to deliver what they promise. Why is that? You’ve got the coolest idea for a story. It’s filled with clever word play,…
How To Find Your Story Theme

Not having a Story Theme Makes For a ‘So What?’ Story Too many stories with glowing potential fail to deliver what they promise. Why is that? You’ve got the coolest idea for a story. It’s filled with clever word play,…
Here is the scene outside my back gate this January morning. Such a change from the recent muddy, wet, damp and dreary weather. This kind of scenery, when the snow is fresh and clean, transforms the world, making the everyday…
Is there a fantasy/sf author anywhere who wouldn’t jump at the chance to go to the moon? I clearly remember watching the 1969 moon landing (no doing the maths now!). At that stage I had no notion of becoming a…
Fiction Writers are World Builders. The dictionary defines fiction as: an invention or fabrication as opposed to fact. Whether the world is the one we recognise and live in every day, or whether it’s one that exists only in imagination,…