Unlocking the Mind’s Cinema: How Stories Play Like Movies Inside Your Brain
But 21st-century readers want more movie clips, fewer paintings, fewer essays, fewer voiceovers. They just do.
If you feel called to write a classic novel for a 19th-century reader, feel free to do so. But those readers are dead, and that’s a marketing problem you’ll need to face.
How Do You Create That Movie?
The way you create a movie in your reader’s brain is to focus on the one thing that’s happening now that you can show your reader. Your are creating a sequence of words. Your reader will read them in the order you write them. Your reader can’t read two paragraphs at once. Your reader can’t even read two sentences at once.
