Dialogue (Part 1)

Question 1:

What was…

• The most interesting conversation you had or heard recently?
• The most boring one?
• Why?

(Please read on for answers)

Welcome to our twelth session and our first one of the new year. Please come in and make yourself comfortable.

In this session, we are finally getting to a topic which I should have covered earlier; the use of dialogue in fiction. On our journey through the history of psychology, we are coming to our final stop in ancient India to learn what one of the greatest Buddhist philosophers has to teach us about it. Please lie down and let’s talk.

Conflict, Karma and Colour

Question 1:

What was the last thing that made you feel…

• Angry?
• Frustrated?
• Indignant?
• Hurt?
• Insulted?
• Worried?
• Conflicted?

(Please read on for answers)

Welcome to our ninth session. Please lie down and make yourself comfortable.

Today, we are exploring another fundamental of fition which we have mentioned before, but not looked at in detail yet. This is the role of conflict in a story and we will be seeing how and why it can affect your plot and characters. In our tour through the history of psychology, we are arriving at our second stop in India and meeting an important early figure of another Indian religion. Please let go of anything that is currently preying on your mind and we will begin.

P.O.V

Question 1:

How would…

…you describe the couch to someone else?

…someone else describe it to you?

…the couch describe itself?

(Please read on for answers)

Welcome to our eighth session. Please come in and make yourself comfortable.

Following on from showing and telling last time, today we are looking at who can do the showing and telling in a story and the different ways they can use to do it. This is a story’s narrative viewpoint or, more commonly, its point-of-view. Writers have a lot of different options to choose from with viewpoints and we are going to look at what all of them can offer to a story. In our journey through the history of psychology, we are heading further east to India, where we be learning what the founder(s) of another great world religion can teach us about it. Please choose a place where you can see as much as you want to, and let’s begin.