Unlocking the Secret Cinema Inside Your Mind: How Stories Play on Your Brain’s Screen
If you’re writing a novel for a 21st-century reader, you have one job—to create a movie in your reader’s brain.
Modern readers love movies. But they read because the movie you create inside their brain is somehow more real to them than a movie on a screen. Because they help to create it. Your novel is the raw material your reader uses to create their own personal movie.
Why Not Write a Classic Novel?
One mistake a lot of beginning writers make is to write a novel like Jane Austen would have written. Or Charles Dickens. Or Fyodor Dostoevsky.
