

The Seven Levels of Attention - and What Writers Need to Know About Them - Part 7
We're looking at four kinds of meaning: sequential, vertical, contextual and embracive. All readers - arguably, all human beings - are...


The Seven Levels of Attention - and What Writers Need to Know About Them - Part 6
We’ve been talking about Meaning and its relationship to Attention. The basic simplicity is an equation: more meaning = more attention....


The Seven Levels of Attention - and What Writers Need to Know About Them - Part 5
Deep Attention is the fount from which ripples move outward, meeting the consciousness of readers at the level of Intermittent Attention....

Learn what a story really is...
Learn: • what a story really is • what it is actually doing to and for you and other readers ​ • the magnetic power that attracts readers...

The Seven Levels of Attention - and What Writers Need to Know About Them - Part 4
Using quite a few jumbled analogies and metaphors, we have proceeded through the levels of Zero Attention (largely ignoring it as it...


The Primary Duty and Action of a Writer
Choosing the right genre, selecting the best setting, devising the most engaging plotlines, providing the necessary archetypal...

The Seven Levels of Attention - and What Writers Need to Know About Them - Part 3
In one version of the story of Schrödinger’s cat, a cat is imagined as being enclosed in a box with a radioactive source and a poison...

Learn what a story really is...
Learn: • what a story really is • what it is actually doing to and for you and other readers ​ • the magnetic power that attracts readers...