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 | Mar 23, 2021 | Productivity
Don’t worry. The boiling frog is alive and well. It thrives in meeting rooms and email chains of projects, big and small. Here’s how to stop it. To halt any potential tears, I should make clear the boiling frog hypothesis is dead and no more frogs are boiled to...
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 | Apr 16, 2020 | Books
Surviving Hell – the title of Nick Dunn’s story of injustice and perilous prisons – seems a fitting tagline for our current Covid-19 predicament, don’t you think? The autobiography, which I edited for Mirror Books and which is on sale now, tells a twin-track tale. In...
