by Giles Broadbent | Feb 22, 2022 | Writing
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 | Writing
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 | Apr 30, 2020 | Writing
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 | Jun 14, 2019 | Writing
Andrew Stanton knows about story. He managed to make us fall in love with a tiny robot with expressive eyes but no language (Wall-E). He engaged us all in the search to find Nemo. The writer also wrote the first film produced entirely on a computer, Toy Story. But...