Gardens of the Mind

Question 1:

Where do you feel the most…

• Excited?
• Nervous?
• Happy?
• Scared?
• Nostalgic?
• Tranquil!?

(Please read on for answers)

Welcome to our fifth session. For a change, please do not come in and make yourself comfortable as we will be spending this one somewhere else.

Over our last few sessions, we have been looking at the three most fundamental pillars of storytelling; structure, character and theme. It is now time to start looking at some of the other elements of fiction, beginning today with setting. In our tour of psychology, we are at our fourth stop in ancient Greece, where we will be meeting a man who understood the importance of setting very well. So, please go to somewhere you feel comfortable sitting down to read and let’s begin.