Writing Fiction: What's the Point? Part Five
If you’ve been following this series of articles, you will have discerned that the Focusing Protocol is subtle. The more subtle, the...
Writing Fiction: What's the Point? Part Four
To inject drama (and create vacuums) into any situation, polarise things: split poles apart, separate them with space and barriers,...
Writing Fiction: What's the Point? Part Three
The Focusing Protocol is a method for bringing about something called ‘analytic/imaginative dissociation’, or encouraging the prospective...
Writing Fiction: What's the Point? Part Two
We’re looking at the Focusing Protocol, which is essentially a method for inducing a reading trance — not a hypnotic trance, but that...
Writing Fiction: What's the Point? Part One
What’s the point of writing fiction? If you said to create an effect on people, you’d be right. That’s the ultimate goal. No arguments...
Reading Fiction and the 'Little Black Box'
As human beings, we all carry around with us a ‘little black box’ which physically we know as the amygdala and mentally the primitive...
Creating an Imperfect World
I hope that you can see that perfect worlds and perfect characters are the bane of good stories. Devise a paradise in which all desires...
Creating a 'Second Nature'
Sometimes, writers assume that the reader understands their fictional world completely. The writer has “lived” in that world for so long,...