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
Magical Fantasy Worlds are all Around Us
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…
Writing Fiction on the Moon
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…
Building Fictional Worlds
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,…