Not all works of fiction rely on a cast made up exclusively of deep, complex, and inscrutable characters. Some need a character that the audience can inhabit or possess; a platform for the reader to survey the world from and a mouthpiece for their own questions and thoughts. Such ‘reader proxy’ (or, in the case
If there’s one vital thing to understand about becoming an author, it’s this – it won’t happen on its own. Getting a book published, finding readers, and winning accolades all result from concerted, informed, sustained effort. Because of this, one of the deadliest things for authors is when something comes along that feeds on this
A writer’s mind is an amazing thing, trapping the minor details of everyday life to twist, inspect, and repurpose in fiction. Often, authors can’t say where their inspiration comes from – it’s too diffuse; disparate concepts being brought together through an alchemy that you can command without truly understanding. But what happens when that process
This is Part 2 of this article – Part 1 can be found here. In Part 1 of this article, we explored how psychological experiments and theories of the past can help you influence your characters to misremember and misunderstand reality, and how sophisticated techniques give you more power over your readers than you might
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