Developing your craft

I don’t mean that to sound lazy - I worked very hard on the book. But I know the dangers of research too. You can get far too interested,...

Sustained interest is usually created by two elements: 1. A need to find out what’s happening, and 2: caring about the people it’s happening...

When I started writing The Fall, I was in a state of what I like to describe now as ‘happy ignorance’. I was just telling the story I...

As with film, a bad script will let the production down. And games companies are now increasingly recruiting writers with film and TV...

An Oxford undergraduate, Samantha Shannon, has just been offered a six figure, three book deal by Bloomsbury. Such news can make us older writers...

I was interested to read a recent review of a well-known author’s new novel. The reviewer said that the author’s writing often tips into ‘...