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Paragone@piefed.social 2 days ago
If you want to write a story, then it is in working-out the meanings that you will earn what your unconscious-mind wants to earn.
Same with people wanting to earn a pilot’s license, or climbing a mountain, or doing SCUBA.
If some of your meaning is hidden in that kind of work, then you aren’t going to earn that part of your meaning by putting it on a shelf, because somebody-else deemed it unimportant.
I’m recommending that you read & understand 5+ books, though, as they dismantle story the technology so that you can more-competently work out your story-meanings:
https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/the-anatomy-of-genres is the most important: it is on the 14 genres that the West has landed on, & the dimension-of-human-meaning that each genre works-on.
Horror works-on one’s unconscious-mind’s understanding of death, & its relationship with it.
Which may explain Grimm’s, tbh.
Detective is intellect.
etc.
The 14 happen in a particular sequence because that’s the sequence in-which each mind-development stands on the previous-ones.
https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/presenting-to-win-updated-and-expanded-edition-2 may seem a strange recommendation, but understanding the 12 TYPES of information-presenting, will help crack some story-problems.
Need a character to fail to communicate something?
Pick the correct for your story wrong-method for them to use, if you see what I man.
https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/the-anatomy-of-story is the other-half of Truby’s work. The 22 steps in story, & why each.
https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/the-story-grid is THE book on editing. There is no book that tops that.
https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Framed+Ink is THE book for getting visual communication working in comics & visual-novels.
Now I discover that there are multiple books in the series ( I got the original, long ago ).
Dig in, earn what your unconscious-mind is trying to earn, grow your meaning, & clobber your difficulties/obstacles.
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Paragone@piefed.social 1 day ago
Sorry I didn’t realize this earlier:
You NEED to understand what Paul Fussell wrote about the North American Class-System, in order to make that work
( & if you’re in Europe, or elsewhere, it’ll still clue you in to many important things about class-systems )
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/s/%22Paul%20Fussell%22?Ntk=P_key_Contributor_List&Ns=P_Sales_Rank&Ntx=mode+matchall
You can see his Class-Status book, there, & also his one on why uniforms are the way they are ( which I didn’t know-about until right-now ).
Coarsely, there are 4 classes:
More finely-grained, however, it’s more like:
Upper-class do not have a “job position": they hire middle-class people, like hired-dogs, to get specific jobs done.
The sycophantism to the upper-class is real.
You can see upper-class behavior among some top upper-middle-class people, when they intentionally walk too-slow, so as to force everybody all around them to pace-match them, “showing their importance”.. ( I’ve seen that, repeatedly, on a deputy-minister, at one site I worked, years ago )
Anyways, I hope that your story’s awesome, & is sooo well-wrought that you gain many many many readers.
Oh, this’ll help, too:
Logan, King, & Dr. Fischer-Wright’s book “Tribal Leadership”, as it’s on the 5 social-process-levels, so if you understand those, you can use that to show the process-change in characters when they’re stressed/opressed/afflicted, & they’re climbing down into Level2 or Level1 of social-process function.
https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/tribal-leadership-revised-edition
Here’s the TED Talk to go with that book, so you get the gist of it, to understand why it’d be important to make a story more true in your readers’ minds: https://www.ted.com/talks/david_logan_tribal_leadership
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