Module 6 -Event Contents:

Defamiliarization

Neural Linguistic Programming

Defamiliarization - the art of making the stone more stony. Defamiliarization is the technique of making the commonplace remarkable through the filter of an unexpected perspective. It forces the reader to engage their own preconceptions, increase deeper emotional contact and is a power tool in any writers arsenal.

Neuro-linguistic programming is the idea that our brains have an operating system driven by language. As a writer by selecting how you deploy language you can subtly manipulate the reader's perspective, emotions and even memory.

Join Iain McKinnon for an introduction on how to improve your prose by intruding on your reader's mind.

Module 1: Introduction to Creative Writing, Rules & PURPOSE

Module 2: What is a Novel & Genre

Module 3: Metrics, Motivation & Productivity

Module 4: Plot

Module 5: Character

Module 6: Defamiliarization & NLP

Module 7: Dialogue

Module 8: World Building

Module 9: Language Building

Module 10: Concept Mapping

Module 11: Narrative Positioning & Description over Exposition

Module 12: Suspense, Tension, Hooks & Cliffhangers & LOCK

Module 13: Constraint and Creativity

Module 14: Word Choice