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  • Historical landscape

    • May 18, 2019
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      One of the advantages of writing historical fiction is that you don’t have to generate a new world from scratch, unlike, say, science fiction or fantasy genre.  You can weave your characters into a ready-made reality and in so doing help to give their psychology and behaviour greater credibility.  While this is in many
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  • Turning points

    • April 13, 2019
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      Any story can, and probably will, contain a variety of turning points which shift the course of events, the directions of the lives of individual characters and the sympathy or antipathy of the audience.  In so doing, more turning points may be created of greater or lesser significance and these changes layer upon, and
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  • Time bending

    • March 9, 2019
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      A fundamental, and fascinating, quality of any narrative, but especially one that incorporates a visual element, is the manipulation of time.  Unlike objective time, which is classically a constant and unidirectional phenomenon (at least at the human experience of reality) time in a graphic novel is much more flexible.  It is reflective, in a
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