Learn the Dark Arts of Writing: 8 Sneaky Techniques
Eight morally questionable techniques that manipulate the reader, and yet ... they’re effective.
note from the wildernet: For those of you fiction writers out there
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- Manipulative fiction pisses me off
I am old enough that when I am reading a book or watching a tv show, unless it is by a very skillful creator, I can pick out when I am being manipulated.
The trick I most hate is using extreme violence or gore. A couple years ago I started watching House of the Dragon. I made… (2 comments)