Thunder Road

Is autism the “current cool disability”?

Finding a story is a little like falling in love.

Here are some quick musings on my research and fact-checking trip.

One of the things that can make or break your story is getting the voices of the characters right. You’re ploughing through a book, enjoying the plot and then one of the characters uses language that just doesn’t fit (e.g. a five-year-old uses the word ‘loquacious’ or something equally unlikely). The whole story suddenly becomes [...]