Blogs about: Psychic Distance

Deep Point of View: Your Readers Deserve Close Psychic Distance!

Gordon Kessler wrote 4 months ago: Deep Point of View: Your Readers Deserve Close Psychic Distance!. … more →

Tags: eBook, Ebook Writing, indie author, Novel-Writing, POV, Point Of View

Deep Point of View: Your Readers Deserve Close Psychic Distance! — 2 comments

Gordon Kessler wrote 4 months ago: Most writers understand the importance and conventions of point of view–but how many understan … more →

Tags: Ebooks & Epublishing, Novel Writing Made Simple, Personal Views, writing, Fiction Writing, Point Of View, POV, Viewpoint

psychic distance

tappan wrote 7 months ago: I’ve struggled to accurately categorize my posts, and I’ve begun to use psychic distance … more →

Tags: psychic distance 3, white people problems, John Gardner

Close Enough to Hear the Whisper

Karyn Henley wrote 11 months ago: Writer Ann Lamott, in her classic book Bird by Bird, counsels writers to trust themselves, especiall … more →

Tags: writing, Revision, Ann Lamott, Bird By Bird, Present Tense, First Person

Close-Ups and Long Shots

Karyn Henley wrote 11 months ago: I have a friend whose comfort zone during a conversation seems to be two inches from my nose. I rece … more →

Tags: Karyn Henley, writing, YA-Lit, Point Of View, John Gardner. The Art of Fiction, Scenes

Is he in heaven? Is he in hell? Where has he gone? No one can tell! (Part the Third) — 3 comments

Martin Seay wrote 1 year ago: In the last couple of posts, I’ve been trying to figure out just what the holy hell is going on in T … more →

Tags: Airy Philosophical Blather, art & democracy, film, Strategies for Invisibility, capital-R Romanticism, Douglas Trumbull, Heraclitus, Martin Heidegger, mystification

Is he in heaven? Is he in hell? Where has he gone? No one can tell! (Part the Second) — 6 comments

Martin Seay wrote 1 year ago: In yesterday’s episode, we took a gander at the much-discussed “dinosaur scene” from Terrence Malick … more →

Tags: film, Boris Tomashevsky, CGI dinosaurs, days of heaven, Heraclitus, John Gardner, Memento, ostranenie, Terrence Malick

5 degrees of psychic distance (yes, really)

Nine Mile Writers wrote 1 year ago: Consider the following sentences taken from The Art of Fiction by John Gardner: It was winter of the … more →

Tags: Writing Prompts, Sentence/story starters, Point Of View, Craft, John Gardner, Art of Fiction, third person

More on Point of View: Who Will Tell the Story?

Find Your Creative Muse wrote 1 year ago: By Dave Hood What is point of view? It is the narrator of the story. It is the character who is obse … more →

Tags: Fiction, Short Fiction, Novel, Short Story, Point Of View, First Person, second person, third person, Limited

Psychic Distance writing exercise from class

dianegeurts74 wrote 3 years ago: We did this exercise in class last night, practicing psychic distance, of which author John Gardner … more →

Tags: Fiction, Exercise, John Gardner

FICTIONAL DREAM

Vicki Hinze wrote 4 years ago: READ ARTICLE … more →

Tags: Author, Novelist, Creative Writing, author distance, deep characterization, sensory perception, transport readers, vivid imagery

CAN'T FAKE THE MAGIC

Vicki Hinze wrote 5 years ago: WARNING: This is a no-edit zone… A writer asked me a question yesterday that I’ve been asked m … more →

Tags: writer's library, Creativity, Writing Craft, Authors, Creative Writing, vicki hinze, Storytelling, writer’s library

PACING

Vicki Hinze wrote 5 years ago: I’ve been getting a lot of questions focused on pacing lately, so I thought I’d share my … more →

Tags: writer's library, Writing Craft, Writers, Novels, novelists, Authors, Writers Blogs, romance writer, thriller novelists


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