The Seven Levels of Attention - and What Writers Need to Know About Them - Part 15
The Holy Grail for writers is the final level, Deep Attention, and it’s safe to say that not many writers will ever reach this point....
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 14
Sequential meaning pulls attention forward; vertical meaning sticks attention downward or inward; contextual meaning ripples outward. If...
The Words of Donna Tartt
Donna Tartt (born 1963) author of the novels The Secret History (1992), The Little Friend (2002), and The Goldfinch (2013) is an American...
The Seven Levels of Attention - and What Writers Need to Know About Them - Part 13
When we read, then, we enter a kind of trance - but this is not the kind of trance which results in an immobility of mind as well as of...
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 12
What happens to us when we are reading a good story? Would it be true to say that we enter a half-conscious state characterised by an...
The Seven Levels of Attention - and What Writers Need to Know About Them - Part 11
Earlier we saw some examples of how to pack as much meaning as you can into those aspects of a book which are visible to a passer-by, so...
The Seven Levels of Attention - and What Writers Need to Know About Them - Part 10
Earlier we established that, to attract potential readers closer and get them to the point where they will actually acquire your book,...