When telling a story, is there a point when the release of a vital piece of information comes so late… more »

My day job is in marketing and we use sales funnels a lot. What’s a sales funnel? It’s a method… more »

I picked up How Fiction Works by James Woods by accident or, more accurately, I picked it up because it… more »

I’m pretty sure that “Creativity Now” by Jurgen Wolff started out as a PowerPoint presentation or a blog because that’s… more »

Finally got around to watching ‘District 13’ and was left with the same complaint that follows a large number of… more »

I have just finished watching ‘The Reader’, a film that uses two very clever storytelling devices or, to be precise,… more »

“Who here has read Raymond Chandler?”
I was nineteen and attending a film studies lecture at university, each session looked… more »

I started reading The Road by Cormac McCarthy back in July after it was recommended to me but soon gave… more »

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/8264572.stm
This short magazine clip gave me a great idea; suggesting your favourite books shouldn’t live on your bookcase because… more »

Author: Mary Doria Russell
Publisher: Black Swan
Published in: 1997
The Sparrow is a sci-fi novel that I read recently… more »