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Writing Loki – Why Your Novel Needs A Trickster - The Norse god Loki holds up a glowing scepter.
Writing
Hannah Collins

Writing Loki – Why Your Novel Needs A Trickster

Mischievous and chaotic, the trickster is a character archetype that recurs throughout mythology, folklore, literature and pop culture. This is, in part, thanks to its boundless flexibility: tricksters can be good, evil or amoral; hero or villain; help or hindrance; spiteful or angelic; comic-relief, obstacle, gatekeeper, sidekick and/or henchperson. Despite this ambiguity of role, essayist Paul

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Your Quick And Easy Guide To Theme, Allegory And Symbolism - A writer sits at their laptop, considering images such as an eye, a flower, a clock and a skull.
Writing
Hannah Collins

Your Quick And Easy Guide To Theme, Allegory And Symbolism

A Christmas Carol, The Catcher in the Rye, Heart of Darkness. Other than stellar writing and compelling characters, what makes a story stand the test of time? How do certain novels achieve the lofty ‘classic’ status while others fade into relative obscurity? The answer is all in the subtext. Authors like Charles Dickens, J.D Salinger and

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