S36E7 – Dark Psychology: Writing Realistic Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, or PTSD, is a common element when writing fiction. Authors are known to put their characters through traumatic events or to give them traumatic backstories. It’s likely...
24 Okt 202211min
S36E6 – Dark Psychology: The Effects of Imprisonment
Imprisonment has a major effect on the minds of both the captives and the captors, which is important to remember when including this theme in your story. Not only are there plenty of fictional works ...
20 Okt 202211min
S36E5 – Dark Psychology: Including Munchausen Syndrome in a Story
If you’re writing a thriller with a caretaker character, you may consider Munchausen Syndrome as a plot device. It’s when someone either pretends to be ill or even makes themselves ill in order to gar...
17 Okt 202211min
S36E4 – Dark Psychology: Brainwashing in Fiction
Of all the topics we’ll talk about this month, brainwashing is the one with the least basis in reality. Certainly, brainwashing is absolutely a real technique and has been used in many wars and even c...
13 Okt 202211min
S36E3 – Dark Psychology: Adverse Childhood Experiences
When you’re building a backstory for your main character, it’s likely that you’ll include an Adverse Childhood Experience (ACE). Psychologists with the Centers for Disease Control have determined a li...
10 Okt 202211min
S36E2 – Dark Psychology: Writing Domestic Abuse
One of the more common types of abuse in fiction is a form of domestic abuse. It can range from physical or verbal, to psychological or financial. For many victims, abuse causes drastic changes in the...
6 Okt 202212min
S36E1 – Dark Psychology: The Use of Gaslighting in Fiction
The human mind can be a dark and scary place, capable of much more evil than most people would even consider possible. As writers, we have a unique kind of permission to explore those dark crevices an...
3 Okt 202211min
S35E9 – The Confusion Caused by Bad Blocking
Few things throw readers off in a book like characters or objects suddenly teleporting in middle of a scene. We’re not talking about actual teleportation, which is more than plausible within fiction. ...
29 Sep 202211min
