Raising the originality stakes

Those brilliant ideas for stories that mysteriously bubble up from somewhere deep in the subconscious to wake an author in the middle of the night, and get them groping for the notebook or phone they

AI, literary theory and traditional storytelling

When you think of fantasy fiction, one of the first words that comes to mind might well be ‘epic’. The genre often features tales that are vast in scope and size, spreading across multiple volumes – w

Coming up for air

When it comes to the first five or six pages in any book, the reader can be sure of one thing. These are the pages the writer has gone over again and again. The words you read may flow or stumble forw

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