Making Magic Real with Leone Ross

How do we make magic in stories feel like it could actually happen? How do we suspend readers’ disbelief and help them roll with the weird?

Making Space for Stories that Hold with Linh S Nguyen

The iconic “hero’s journey” is one way to structure a novel—but it is not the only one. What can Ursula K. Le Guin’s feminist essay “The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction” tell us about story structure?

Editing Your Novel

You’ve reached your word count. Now what? Exercises and techniques so you can organise your book and your mind most effectively. With Emma Healey.

Crafting a Narrative Driven World

How to create a narrative where the world design is inherent to the story being crafted, rather than standing alongside it as detail. With Ed McDonald.

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