Year: 2025
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Pacing Your Narrative: Controlling the Reader’s Journey
Pacing is the unseen hand that guides your reader through your story, controlling the speed at which events unfold and information is revealed. Effective pacing can build suspense during a thrilling chase, create intimacy in a quiet moment, or convey urgency during a crisis. It involves varying sentence length, paragraph…
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The societal impact of predictive policing.
Predictive policing, a growing trend in law enforcement, leverages algorithms and data analytics to forecast where and when crimes are likely to occur, and even who might commit or be a victim of them. Proponents argue it’s a data-driven approach to crime prevention, making policing more efficient and targeted. However,…
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Writing Authentic Emotion: Making Readers Feel
To truly captivate readers, your writing must evoke genuine emotion. It’s not enough to tell readers a character is sad; you must make them feel that sadness alongside the character. Authentic emotional writing comes from delving deep into the sensory and psychological experiences of your characters. Instead of broad strokes,…
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Beyond the algorithm: Can human intuition survive?
In an age dominated by powerful algorithms guiding everything from our entertainment choices to our financial decisions, a critical question emerges: what happens to human intuition? Algorithms excel at pattern recognition and optimised decision-making based on vast datasets. They offer efficiency and often accuracy that our human brains, prone to…
Antony West (Author) 