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How Story Affects Us

August 26, 2018 Tamar Sloan

Continuing in our four post series on the foundation for harnessing your readers’ psychology, today we’re exploring how story affects us. We’ve already explored where

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Story in the Human Psyche

August 12, 2018 Tamar Sloan

After my brief hiatus (life got busy and I got overwhelmed), I’m back and excited to bring you a series of posts that will be

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The Psychology of High Concept

December 3, 2017 Tamar Sloan

The term high-concept got on my radar at this year’s Romance Writers of Australia conference. I listened to a couple of panels where a mix

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Your Book Needs These 6 Psychological Ingredients

April 30, 2017 Tamar Sloan

Psychology has given us such a wonderful understanding into human behaviour that’s it’s a veritable gold-mine for writers. It not only lets us understand our

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Is Your Character Ready to Change? The Stages of Change for Writers

April 23, 2017 Tamar Sloan

  Narratives are all about change – protagonists changing their perspectives as they see, hear and learn new things, choosing to do things differently as

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When Your Character Creates their World: The Self-Fulfilling Prophecy

February 26, 2017 Tamar Sloan

There’s an old Russian story about a prince that ruled back in the tenth century – Prince Oleg. It was prophesised by the pagan priests

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Autism Spectrum Disorder for Writers

February 13, 2017 Tamar Sloan

If you’ve got a character who has autism then you’ve just set yourself a challenge, but a challenge that has some of the greatest flexibility

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4 Ways Your Character Will Handle a Stressful Situation

January 30, 2017 Tamar Sloan

I wrote recently on my Writers Helping Writers guest post fear is hardwired into our brain. Deep, deep in the primal part that we don’t

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5 Ways Your Character Will Handle Loss

January 22, 2017 Tamar Sloan

“Grief does not change you, Hazel. It reveals you.” ― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars Loss is a part of life, and if it’s a

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6 FREE Inspirational Posters for Writers

January 8, 2017 Tamar Sloan

As we stare down the barrel of 2017 and with a book set to be published in April I’m reflecting on all the wisdom that

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Why Readers Read: What every writer needs to know

November 13, 2016 Tamar Sloan

Why do we read? I hadn’t really thought about this question in any depth. Sure I could tell you that I do it because I

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