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Fellow Soul Scribblers, I have always been a writer (poetry, journals, grey lit and excellent letters to loved ones). Mostly, it was channeled into my other vocation (youth worker/academic). A lifetime of experiences was collected in journals...

Highlander is a great example! It what @Sedayne said above with the 'contradictory elements that illicit a strong sense of intrigue'. Imagine you're going into it blind (which was probably easier in the 80s than it is now): We start with a...

Thank you. I live in the greater Glasgow area. The book is literary fiction, reflective of the world I grew up in. Bleak, but darkly comic 😀 Thanks for this Rachel, Is there somewhere I can view works looking for critique? Keen to upload...

Thank you. I live in the greater Glasgow area. The book is literary fiction, reflective of the world I grew up in. Bleak, but darkly comic 😀

Welcome aboard @JohnJoeSmith :) I'm sure you'll feel at home here. Sorry about your mum :( What do you write?

Hello, I spent the last 6 months writing a manuscript and on Tuesday started the process of trying to understand how to take to market, etc. Along the way a site recommended this place, so thought I would take a look. Brief bit about me: I was...

Freddie Forsyth is dead. Author of The Day of the Jackal and more of that ilk. As dodgy a character in real life as any in his books. Like Jeffrey Archer, wrote thrillers for the home county set. End of an era – end of a profitable genre too...

That's a great example A talent show... ...where winning means killing

Yeah. Can do. Thing about cog diss as a tool is that it actually has to work. Just throwing two utterly disparate concepts together into your story blender doesn’t guarantee any cog diss impact at all. There has to be some weird...

I would say Elmore Leonard employs this well, tho the quirky characters do get a bit wearing after a while. The psychopath that adores puppys being an example in the recent film Accouuntant 2. And he's the hero. It begins to feel paint by...

My favourite... The Hunger Games

I would say that also applies to toddlers, remembering my sticky eldest covered in meringue insisting he had no idea what happened to the lemon pie I had baked for the landlord so he would give us our deposit back after crayon scribbles that...