jonathan – Page 7 – Jonathan K. Benton

Show don't tell – it's true of life too!

jonathan / July 4, 2013

Authors know this rule well: show, don’t tell. It’s an important rule, possibly the most important. Readers don’t appreciate being […]

jonathan / June 28, 2013

When I was at primary school I started to notice that girls were much prettier than boys. I even had

jonathan / June 21, 2013

It seems logical that if a country with a population of 5.4 million circa can create a highly successful publicly

jonathan / June 16, 2013

Throughout the book The Lord of the Rings, Sauron rarely (if ever, from memory) speaks a word. We don’t know what

jonathan / June 14, 2013

‘Toot Fraakyl’ is an ancient greeting used by Allaria, a beautiful (and she knows it) little fae that lights up

jonathan / June 9, 2013

A recent article in the paper highlighted yet another heart-breaking example of the imbalance that exists in this far from

jonathan / June 1, 2013

I spent a couple of hours a few weeks ago dressed in an ankle-length, hooded black cloak walking up and

jonathan / May 11, 2013

Other than the many great books I’ve read, I wanted to explore why I write, and I soon found that

jonathan / May 4, 2013

1) The Lord of the Rings: The Lord of the Rings was always going to be on this list. However,

jonathan / April 24, 2013

Always where light shines brightest, the darkness is most pitch. It is in these extremes, real and imagined, that our