

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...


The Seven Levels of Attention - and What Writers Need to Know About Them - Part 2
In looking at the seven levels of attention, I asserted that the largest category was that of zero attention. I am hoping that this will...


Miracle: A Foreword
Back in 2018, I published an anthology of Christian stories. This was the foreword. In asking for submissions for an anthology 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...


Enigma: A Foreword
I thought you might like a glimpse of the foreword to the 2018 book Enigma: The Inner Circle Writers' Group Crime/Mystery/Thriller...


The Seven Levels of Attention - and What Writers Need to Know About Them - Part One
It’s quite likely that a fair amount of science has gone into the subject of attention. There’s the Zeigarnik Effect, for example. Bluma...


Grabbing Attention
Trying to write a story? Worried that you will end up penning something derivative, full of clichés, tired or too obvious? Here are three...



