A FEW Don'ts must be remembered if you are to turn out a good story. Here are some: (a) Don't look through your old manuscripts and tack scientific endings to them. A Scientific Detective Story is a ...

Fairy stories often start with the words 'Once upon a time'. Many include a battle between good and evil and usually end with the characters living 'happily ever after'. Fairy stories are ...

A good story requires a skillset that can only ... try to write two or three pages in longhand everyday before you sit down to write the story or poem you most want to write.

However, writing success stories without a careful plan can lead to suboptimal results—duplication of target audiences and omission of others, for example. At the same time, poorly written or ...