My upcoming fantasy novella, Fires of the Dead: https://jedherne.com/firesofthedead

Sonder: The profound feeling of realizing that everyone, including strangers passed in the street, has a life as complex as one’s own, which they are constantly living despite one’s personal lack of awareness of it.

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Goodwill Hunting is one of the most emotionally resonant films I’ve seen. It has a way of getting under your skin and making viewers care. Today’s episode analyses how it achieves this, drawing upon theories from The Emotional Craft of Fiction by Donald Maass.

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Readers can only read forwards. Writers can cheat. Use this to your advantage, authors!

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Podcast I did on The Name of the Wind: https://novelanalyst.com/2018/08/07/episode1/

Gabriel Bergmoser said that The Name of the Wind somehow makes a man playing an instrument more suspenseful than a man fighting a dragon. That’s not an insult. That’s a compliment, because Patrick Rothfuss’ incredible fantasy novel is a masterclass in making small stakes feel huge.

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For readers to appreciate how far characters have come, you need to show how far they’ve gone. This episode describes how.

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In The Emotional Craft of Fiction, a wonderful writing advice book, legendary literary agent Donald Maass outlines how writers can make readers feel emotion. As he says: “readers can read a novel, or they can experience it.” One technique to achieve this emotional engagement is to consider plot vs. emotional goals. Having both is the key to empathy. In today’s episode, we’ll examine how Toy Story achieves this.

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According to Gary Chapman’s book, The Five Love Languages, we each have unique ways of showing and giving appreciation. These are:

1 – Quality Time

2 – Words of Affirmation

3 – Touch

4 – Gifts

5 – Acts of Service

As an author, you can use these love languages to create more complex, interesting, and realistic characters.

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While I don’t believe in writer’s block, I do believe that procrastination exists. However, I don’t want it to exist, so in this episode I’ll outline a four-step approach to diagnose and solve the enemy of productivity. This four-step approach has the handy acronym of DUST.

We procrastinate because things are:

D – Difficult
U – Undefined
S – Scary
T – Tedious

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Big spoiler warning for the Lightbringer series! Approach with caution.

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