
Like the literary equivalent of Star Trek’s Vulcan mind-meld, fiction offers us the uncanny experience of inhabiting another person’s point of view. Isn’t it amazing? It’s like we get to live a thousand lives, just by picking up a book to read.
As writers, how do we create that experience for our readers, so that they’re not just turning the pages of a book but living the story right along with our characters? One concept I find helpful is to seek a balance between what I call the “inside story” and the “outside story.”
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