Julia Cameron's follow up book to The Artist's Way, especially for writers. Cameron includes more of her wisdom and encouragement, many fun and challenging writing exercises, as well as the staple Morning Pages and Artist Date suggestions made famous in The Artist's Way.

Using fragments and run on sentences for effect. You may have found places in your story where using incorrect grammar sounds better, but choosing exactly where to use good grammar and when to drop into conversational style can be a tricky skill to develop.

The story of how Stevie King gradually became best-selling horror writer, Stephen King, is fascinating for anyone – whether a writer or reader. If you’ve ever asked, been asked, or wanted to ask a writer how they do it, where they get their ideas from, here’s your answer.

Action can enliven a plot and add challenges for the characters that stretch their skills and character development. If you write action and adventure stories, or even another genre, at some stage you might decide to put your characters into an action sequence.

Fictional dialogue is a careful blend of natural sounding speech and more eloquent lines pre-written for the character, and made to make the most of dramatic effect.

Although you may be surprised by the quality of symbolism that your story seems to have drawn on subconsciously, usually you will add most of the metaphors and symbolism after you have begun your book, or even after several drafts.

Flash fiction is one of the most underutilised and underrated techniques in writing. Flash fiction allows you to try different responses, personalities, and histories for your characters to see if it changes the scene in any way.

Free 10-week workshop in self-editing of fiction, based on Noah Lukeman's bestseller, The First Five Pages.

If the raw plot is the backbone of your story, the perception matrix, or perception framework, is the muscle that manipulates other elements of the story.

The Science Fiction and Fantasy genres are very often blurred, and, if you don´t set out with the intention of deliberately writing one or the other genre, it can be difficult to categorise a story that has elements of both genres.