When you are writing your hero, it can be useful to imagine them differently... to see their virtues through a smokier lens, to root out...

One important technique in New Scripture is the bending and stretching of the narratives of religion so as to present other plausible...

This quote may seem a little disorienting, because it requires us to imagine a character so clement that they suffer from a surfeit of...

This post comes courtesy of my friend and fellow writer Mr W. F. Gadd. It comprises the full text of his 2015 poem Ascension, the first...

Every serious writer, whether they will admit it or not, aspires towards the kind of work that might qualify as genius. Even if they...

There is a hard kind of modesty in this statement from Chuck Palahniuk. There is a recognition that the astonishing sales success (and...

In 2009 I wrote a book called Firestick Farmer. The book tells the story of a radicalised Aboriginal academic named Jim Farmer who...