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Over time, I have been fortunate to work with some famous people who have made their money from stories (for details, see the In Conversation With… section of The Story Book). From the insights of these luminaries, from my own experiences getting published, from my work as a story consultant, from working on films and from undertaking my PhD in narrative …

If there’s one thing novice writers get wrong more than anything else, it’s the bad side of their story. Why? Because we are good people. We don’t like or relate to the murderers, the dastardly and the manipulative psychopaths that we end up writing about. I would go further: as writers, we are probably even more pacific and sensitive than …