Akira Toriyama is one of the most popular and commercially successful manga artists. He’s a down to earth guy, apparently regularly getting reprimanded for turning up late and dressing casually at his first job, in advertising. He was blown away by several animated series he viewed as a child, and although determined to do something … Read more
The best pastoral writers of all time are Brontë, Ovid, Virgil, Hesiod, Horace, Theocritus, Orwell, McCarthy, Hardy, Shakespeare, Jonson, Fletcher, and Tasso, Spenser, Milton. The pastoral genre can be traced to Ancient Greece (over two thousand five hundred years ago!), and pastoral characters often have Greek names which gesture to this lineage. So, what is pastoral … Read more
When you play a video game, do you find the detail, depth and originality of the story has the greatest effect upon your experience? You’re not alone. Let’s take a look at the writers who have given us some of the most memorable video game stories and characters of all time. The five best video … Read more
Description offers an excellent place for budding writers to start, but the art of writing description well can be more difficult than anticipated. It takes a lot of skill and nuance to capture different characters and settings accurately through language, and to craft descriptions your readers visualize, remember and long to revisit. The best descriptive … Read more
Danielle Steel has become one of the most highly paid, and most successful published authors to date: regularly publishing up to 7 novels a year while keeping up online with letters to her loyal followers each month! Over a career spanning 50 years (she published her first novel in 1973, and is due to publish … Read more
Arguably the best works are popular and literary, and Dan Brown is a master of public appeal. In this regard at least, writers have a lot to learn from him. In his popular works are often buried very worthy themes, positive societal messaging and strong examples of how to pace and create tension within the … Read more
While some criticisms are leveled at King’s work, including that he skews too far toward the popular while sacrificing quality for quantity, his writing remains enormously popular. Understanding what makes his writing so popular is valuable for writers while simply enjoying the fruits of his labor is valuable for readers! Yes, Stephen King is worth … Read more
The best persuasive writers are Virginia Woolf, Machiavelli, Martin Luther King, the Evangelists, and George Orwell. These writers are influential and popular, setting the intellectual world alight with their teachings. There is so much to be gleaned about the nature of persuasive writing in these texts. George Orwell Orwell wrote wonderful novels with which many … Read more
It’s a brave writer who sets out to write a long novel, and chances are if you’ve sought out this article, you have the courage required to pen a lengthy story of your own. It can be difficult to sustain the interest of a reader over hundreds of pages. It can also be difficult to … Read more
As an aspiring author, or simply as someone who wonders how writers earn their keep, you might wonder whether writers are paid for attending book signings and book tours. Is that glamorous time spent sitting in a leather chair while people queue up for a brief chat, an autograph and a selfie time on the … Read more