The quote is, of course, from Zuckerman’s book ‘Writing the Block Buster Novel’. It is made with reference to a certain Don Corleone. Zuckerman is
In my last post, I was talking about my new fledged writer friend being upset at the savagery of a one star review (though she
Re-reading my favourite novel by Margaret Atwood, ‘Bodily Harm’, made me wonder, as I have done before, whether or not you have to identify strongly
Following on from my recent post about antagonists, it is interesting how that role is often played by an inhuman character, and can even be
In an earlier post, I discussed how Elizabeth Gaskell used a particular character type – suely largely based on her lost and beloved brother –
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