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This is best explained as the gap that the reader feels from the point of view character’s viewpoint or consciousness. When readers become so involved in a story that they find empathy for the POV character, the psychic distance is very close. When readers are distracted away from the POV character’s consciousness due to clumsy writing or author intrusion, the psychic distance widens. They are reminded that they are only reading fiction and not experiencing the story for themselves. The fictional dream is interrupted, and they are removed from the story and the consciousness of the POV character.

Firmly seated in your POV character’s mind, readers should not only feel the story as real and lifelike but also as if they are truly experiencing the action themselves. In other words, there should be little or no psychic distance between reader and story.

Every she thought, he thought, he heard, she heard, she saw, he saw, etc., pushes readers back — jolts them out of the comfy POV hot seat inside the character’s head, reminding them that it is the character experiencing the story and not the individual reader.
Within the POV character’s consciousness, readers find characterization, mood and scene tone by the way the character sees the world around her. Take for instance the following two, very different descriptions of the same weather:
The dreary sky wept from its darkness like a three-day widow.

The fat clouds showered the city with freshness and promise of renewed life. Mood and characterization are also provided through descriptions of cities, buildings, crowds and people. For example, for a lighter, more cheery character mood, try making a busy, crowded mall scene a positive reflection in the POV character’s thoughts — or give a bright, sunny day negative connotations to indicate a day of dread for the POV character.
In summary, make all of the viewpoints you use in your story sympathetic, each viewpoint character emotionally tied to the events in the scene, even if it’s your antagonist’s rationalization of his misdeeds.


Do this by asking yourself five distinct questions:
What does this character want?
What does this character think about the situation?
What does this character think of the other characters?
How does this character feel physically?
What is this character’s basic emotional state?

https://olofoforeview./2016/11/18/what-is-psychic-distance-how-bestsellers-use-it/

bibijay123:
I knew it was dive before I even saw his moniker. I like this n its true.

lol

Lleigh:
Very true Divepen1

abi nau..
hmmm I'm suspecting you're a carrier of front page.
This one you're first to comment, the thing will crash there..

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Time pressure - The character has a limited amount of time in which to accomplish a goal or solve a problem.
Ex.: Rumpelstiltskin, Hansel and Gretel Other time pressures include:

2. Forces of nature - Rain coming in. impending storm, etc.

3.Deadline dates - preparations, contest entry deadlines, athletic training for a specific contest, mortgage payment, bomb set to go off, harvest before the rain frost, onset of winter, etc. Arrival of holiday - birthday of Christmas gifts to make, etc.

4.Setbacks - The most important part of the plot is the series of setbacks the main character faces in trying to resolve the conflict or attain the goal. In well-developed fiction, there are often 3 or more of them. The series of setbacks make up the middle of the story. The main character overcomes each successively more difficult setback - the last one in a grand way to a satisfactory close.

Events or setbacks that might temporarily prevent the characters from solving their problems are:
injuries
weather
losses
mistakes
misunderstandings
mishaps or accidents

5 Reader Is In On a Secret the Character Doesn't Know - Tension rises when the reader learns something through the narration that the character doesn't know. The reader becomes anxious for the character.
Ex. The bed is frayed and about to break.
A villain is hiding in the house. A trap has been laid.

6.Anticipation of a Major Scene - Characters set up the tension through their dialogue about the Big Event or their warnings. They anticipate another character’s arrival or action(s).

https://olofoforeview./2016/11/18/top-6-skillful-plot-effect-you-need/

In response to a fan
Missuniverse (of Nairaland).
Gudday Akin,
permit me to start by commending your writing prowess; u re indeed a man with a golden pen, u re talented, kip doing wat u knw how to do best and d sky ll b ur beginning…
Divepen1 Sir, plz is there a way I could get the comprehensive and ordered story of Bidemi and Grace: way back frm wen she met Rachel, hw Rachel left her home on her birthday, the secondary school saga, d lesbian anty, hw grace nd racheal got separated, d high institution drama, under ground room, remote control, legend of zombies, breaking codes ,d whole bidemi /jerry wahala and chief and his palava etc
actually I followed dese stories, sometimes I get confused, oda times i dont get to see d end, but at d mention of Adeoti, I knw dey re related. ..
If its to read on nairaland, plz help me identify d beginning frm d middle ;
if I ve to pay for it, I ll gladly do…
looking forward to your favourable response.
Following
Most of my stories seems to be interwoven. What I tried to do is that I always like to give a back story from a previous story. So, if you’ve not read any of my other stories, it’s good you do because every back story has a reality. However, I’ve tried as much as possible to make them independent of each other.
Take ‘ lost but Satisfied’, we read about how Grace told Rachael about her past life, about she was kidnapped. That happened in ‘ I need to Know’ a story that happened when they were in Jss3.
There are other instances. If you’ve read any of my works and you’re find it hard to connect them, be free to drop your comments, and questions below, I’ll reply them.
I’m grateful…


https://olofoforeview./2016/11/17/my-stories-are-connected-but-independent/

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