by Giles Broadbent | Feb 22, 2022 | Techniques
Finding your voice, something that is distinctly you, is not alchemy, it just requires you to be you, says George Saunders, short story supremo A writer’s voice: what is it? You know what it is when you read it. Charles Dickens, JK Rowling, Vladimir Nabokov,...
by Giles Broadbent | Apr 23, 2021 | Techniques
What is a story? The age-old question with many answers. Best ask someone who has experience of creating stories that resonate and make us care Andrew Stanton knows about story. He managed to make us fall in love with a tiny robot with expressive eyes but no language...
by Giles Broadbent | Feb 23, 2021 | Techniques
You have a brilliant idea for an article. You want someone else to read (and pay for) this brilliance. Here’s how to put together a perfect pitch Pot luck pitching Pitching is pot luck much of the time. Some editors receive hundreds of pitches and press releases and...
by Giles Broadbent | Aug 20, 2020 | Techniques
The screenwriting credits of Shane Black are littered with blockbusters with a twist. So what does the creator of Lethal Weapon bring to a script? Screenwriter Shane Black leaves his fingerprints everywhere. You know him by his works. And those works are...
by Giles Broadbent | Apr 30, 2020 | Techniques
The habits of our great writers are often fixed. And hugely important as routines lead to results. But how would they handle the Great Lockdown? So, here’s our game. What if Ravengate Publishing had just signed contracts with some of the greatest writers in history....
by Giles Broadbent | Dec 10, 2019 | Techniques
There are too many books. Nearly 50 million on Amazon. You have one book, or maybe a couple, or a dozen – and you want customers to catch the buzz. That’s the equivalent of picking out Bob and Nina from Basingstoke while surveying the population of the UK....
