Steps to Success » Creating Stories
As children, we’ve been taught many rules that we ought to follow, like “you mustn’t lie” or “you ought to work hard”. But the rationale behind why these rules should be followed is often lost on children nowadays, mainly because they lack the necessary life experience to empathize and reach an understanding. This is why stories are such an important tool to explain… Read More
In the world of fiction where magic knows no bounds and imaginary science enables characters to travel to different dimensions, it seems daunting to create a character that the audience can relate to when these are experiences that no regular person could possibly live through themselves, let alone a non-human character like an animal or an alien. But there is more to a… Read More
“And then he planted a bomb which exploded everything within a 100-metre radius for no reason, then killed his best friend for, surprise! Also no reason at all!” While it can be entertaining to read this sort of story for the first couple of times, it soon gets dull when it becomes clear there is actually not much point to all… Read More
Fanfiction is a story featuring characters, settings, and even plotlines invented by other writers. Writers have been responding to and engaging with texts they love for centuries – John Milton’s Paradise Lost is a retelling of the creation story, James Joyce took Homer’s The Odyssey and set it in Dublin in Ulysses,… Read More
