Fantasy

How To Craft A Fascinating Quest Narrative - A character sets off on a quest, map in hand.
Writing
Rebecca Langley

How To Craft A Fascinating Quest Narrative

From Gilgamesh setting out to learn the secret of immortality to the real-life adventures of Chris McCandless, quest narratives have always enthralled us. It could be the allegory (life’s a journey, right?) or boredom with our own nine-to-fives, but whatever it is, the genre is satisfying… if it’s done right. The dark side of quest

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Reader Proxies: What They Are And When They’re Useful - A reader manipulates a puppet that looks exactly like them.
Writing
Fred Johnson

Reader Proxies: What They Are And When They’re Useful

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

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Psychology 101: Knowledge That Will Improve Your Writing (Part 2) - An author holds up their brain, which is thinking about writing.
Marketing
Robert Wood

Psychology 101: Knowledge That Will Improve Your Writing – Part 2

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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Psychology 101: Knowledge That Will Improve Your Writing (Part 1) - An author holds up their brain, which is thinking about writing.
Marketing
Robert Wood

Psychology 101: Knowledge That Will Improve Your Writing – Part 1

For many authors, psychology is a godsend, lending them new insights into the workings of the human mind that take their work to the next level. Not only that, but many psychological theories and experiments make their way into the cultural landscape, shaping what readers expect from their stories and what’s considered realistic in fiction.

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