Tense and point of view: part four

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

OVER THE LAST 40 YEARS, ELLE HAS CELEBRATED CREATIVITY OF ALL KINDS. HERE, A RANGE OF TODAY’S LEADING ARTISTS, WRITERS, PHOTOGRAPHERS AND DIRECTORS SHARE THE RITUALS, ROUTINES AND REALITIES BEHIND THEIR GREATEST WORKS, FROM MIND-BLOWING EXCEL SHEETS TO THE MAGIC OF THE DARK ROOM

Douglas Adams, of Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy fame, was famously easily distracted, not to say a little work shy. He is supposed to have said, ‘I love deadlines, I love the whooshing sound they m

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