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Archive for the ‘Character’ Category

  • 35 Years of Devil in a Blue Dress

    04 Jun 2025

    DEVIL IN A BLUE DRESS Devil in a Blue Dress is celebrating its 35th anniversary. Walter Mosley’s bestseller broke new…

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  • Breaking bad? Review of Graham Greene’s Travels with My Aunt

    30 Oct 2020

    REVIEW: TRAVELS WITH MY AUNT I’m very into re-reading at the moment (if you’re interested there’s a great article on…

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  • How to create a character that lives

    20 Sep 2019

    HOW TO CREATE A CHARACTER THAT LIVES This week I talked to Bonnie D Graham on her radio programme Read…

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  • Wants and Needs in writing

    06 Sep 2018

    Wants and Needs in Writing A few weeks ago I wrote about my GOATS method for writing fiction and screenplays.…

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  • The GOATS method for writing and editing

    10 Aug 2018

    How to write powerful stories using the GOATS method. Great stories possess great power. Whether fiction, movies, TV or theatre,…

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  • 14 ways to develop characters your readers will love

    23 May 2018

    Or develop characters they’ll hate… envy… admire… care about… Character is at the heart of every story – whether for…

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  • Darkness in the Pacific: Review – Black Water by Louise Doughty

    02 Mar 2018

    Review: Black Water by Louise Doughty. Agents, publishers, books on writing tell you to write about nice characters who grow…

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  • How to avoid the crime fiction trap

    25 Nov 2015

    Crime is the post popular genre in fiction and on screen today, but many writers fall into the crime fiction trap.…

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  • How to weave research into a screenplay

    24 Mar 2015

    Jacob Berry writes: I am writing a documentary screenplay on witchcraft in the American Pentecostal church, which occurred back in…

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  • How not to write a dark story – The Judge

    05 Dec 2014

    The new Robert Downey Jnr, Robert Duvall movie The Judge brilliantly shows how to write a dark story of bitter relationships. Unfortunately,…

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