Pace and plot

Reserve your place at these exciting September masterclasses, each focusing on an essential aspect of the writing process.

All...

A dramatic world, in storytelling terms, is something that links the important characters and confines the story in some way. It can be something...

Over the years I’ve struggled with this question, finding it impossible to judge my own work. Adept at knowing when someone else’s manuscript hits...

I’d worked in publishing for twenty years before I realised that I didn’t know that much about writing.

When I studied English my...