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The Problem with knowing your story too well
Fantasy worlds can become places of comfort, immersion and escape. But sometimes knowing a world too well makes it difficult to see what the reader still needs to discover.
May 153 min read


Why History Feels so Powerful in Storytelling
When you start writing and you realise, I've heard this somewhere before... History has always fascinated us. We build entire television channels around it. We study it in schools. We return constantly to stories of past conflicts, political choices and social conventions; from the drawing rooms of Bridgerton to the smoke-filled back streets of Peaky Blinders. But I do not think history fascinates us simply because of the events themselves. History is more than kings, battles
May 82 min read
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