Rod Duncan – Dark Corners - How to Conjure Ghosts in the Reader's Mind - Part of UK Ghost Story Festival
£7.50
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22 Feb 2025
3.30pm - 4.30pm
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In this workshop, we’ll explore things the text leaves unsaid – those dark corners left to be filled by the reader. We’ll try out writing techniques designed to emulate the interaction of the human eye and the visual cortex. To call it ‘hacking’ the brains of our readers would make it sound manipulative. So, let’s say we are helping them to generate a vivid and immersive experience.
Rod Duncan is the author of 12 books, including 9 novels. Being aphantasic (unable to form mental images) he has been driven to explore the ways his readers respond to visual cues in his writing. This question of the hidden world of other people’s reading experience became the subject of his PhD research, which is the basis of this workshop.
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