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,...
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 9
Earlier, I suggested that a writer must use sequences - and the ‘hook’ of something missing in expected sequences - to draw readers...
The Seven Levels of Attention - and What Writers Need to Know About Them - Part 8
Human beings seek Meaning. They seek it everywhere they look: in the world at large, in religions, social movements, politics, in groups,...
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 7
We're looking at four kinds of meaning: sequential, vertical, contextual and embracive. All readers - arguably, all human beings - are...
