It’s common knowledge that every story has already been told. From boy meets girl to boy eats girl, we’ve had thousands and thousands of years to express every possible variant of human experience and interaction. For many authors this is a worrying truth, suggesting that there’s no worth in creating anything new. But is this true?
Sometimes, to be really great at something, you have to understand its limits. How far can it be pushed before it breaks? How much can it transform before it becomes something else? Nowhere is this truer than in literature, a discipline where there is still no unanimous decision on even the most basic of questions.
‘Culture’ is a strange concept, an attempt to define a group by attaching a consistent attitude to their art. Some argue that it’s something you understand on an instinctual level, while others claim it’s nothing more than a construct created by powerful commercial and political influencers. However it forms, there’s no denying that a group’s
I’ve taken a lot of English classes, gone to a lot of lectures, heard authors, professors, agents, and editors speak. And they all give great advice. Read widely, write every day, that sort of thing. But I remember looking for more practical tools. I know the secret to a successful writing career is that there
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