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  • What’s Your Story About?

    What’s Your Story About?

    One of the biggest dangers we non-planning writers face is that you can easily end up writing screeds and screeds of excellent work, only to…

  • Different Seasons

    Different Seasons

    I’ve never been a fan of horror stories (but power to you if you like them) and for that reason, I’ve avoided the work of…

  • Stories Are Read (Clichés Are Too)

    Stories Are Read (Clichés Are Too)

    Since it’s Valentine’s Day, I thought today was as good a day as any to write a post about the tricky business of creating a…

  • Accounting for Taste

    Accounting for Taste

    The truth is, there’s a lot of snobbishness surrounding fiction. People who read literary fiction often look down upon people who read genre fiction; people…