How to Be a Writer Part 1
‘The writing life is not an easy one’ — a sentiment sometimes voiced by writers. To which my wife would probably reply ‘Woe is your...
Why You Should Avoid Opinionated Editors
Something came up recently in a social media group which I thought it might be prudent to address, as many of you are probably running...
Writing Fiction: What's the Point? Part Six
Some scenarios: To give you more of an idea on how this all fits together, let’s take a look at a series of examples of how the Focusing...
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...