Status Updates From The Science of Storytelling

A bit too esoteric and repetitive for me; otherwise, the book offers good advice for beginner writers (and the more experienced in need of refreshing their knowledge).

From the ignition point onwards, the protagonist has been in a battle to reimpose control over the external world. If the story has a happy ending the process will be successful. Their brains model of the external world, and its theory of control, will have been updated and improved. They’ll finally be able to tame the chaos.

Our sense of self is organised by an unreliable narrator. We’re led to believe we are in complete control of ourselves but we’re not

“Identifying and accepting our flaws, and then changing who we are, means breaking down the very structure of our reality before rebuilding it in a new and improved form.This is not easy. It’s painful and disturbing. We’ll often fight with all we have to resist this kind of profound change. This is why we call those who manage it’heroes’ “

Talking about good metaphors and similes at the moment “Libertines are hideous spiders, that often catch pretty butterflies” Denis Diderot