
A introduction to what you will learn in this course.
I'd like to tell you a little more about me and invite you to introduce yourself.
Story is power. Story is the power that shaped and continues to shape our world today.
When we use emotion in storytelling, we are able to let the reader experience another life through empathy. This type of storytelling also allows us to break down walls and see the world from another point of view.
We are all storytellers. When we find a story that hits us on an emotional level, we share that story with our circle of friends and family.
Explore the role the brain plays in engaging with story. Learn how you can weigh your book with what the brain craves for stronger reader engagement.
Part 1- Learn how to choose a target audience and plan for your story's emotional impact. These two simple things will solve months of frustrating marketing.
How to build the best protagonist for your story.
Understand what an outer problem is and how to use it so the protagonist and not the plot is driving the story forward.
Learn how to create an inner problem that your reader will instantly connect with.
Inner problems fall into two broad categories:
In this video I will demonstrate six examples, and how you can use them in your writing.
In this lesson you will learn to wrap up your story so that readers will want to share it (and no, this does not always mean a happy ending).
If you are interested in delving deeper into the human mind and how it interacts with story and emotion, here is my bibliography. This details all the research that went in to creating this course. If it wasn't for these professionals, I would never have been able to fully understand this subject, nor would I have been able to connect the dots and create a class that pulls this information together in a usable program for authors.
This informational handout will give you the basics you need to understand what readers in the basic genres are looking for. It can also help you decide which genre will be the best fit for your work.
Thank you for taking the course.
Learn how to write a story that will suck your readers in and get them to share your work with friends, family, and co-workers.
Story is the most powerful force in the world, but so few people even understand what it is or how it works.
In Punch them in the Gut you will learn:
Gain maximum reader engagement by understanding What Readers Want.
This course represents 1000's of hours of research in writing and psychology boiled down to the core level of understanding so you can take what you learn and put it right to work.
The course includes eight modules, designed to build a foundation of the psychology of reading first. As you move forward in the course, you will learn how to structure and write your story to tap into the reader's deep emotions.
Punch them in the Gut also includes worksheets that will help you identify reader's emotions, protagonist's emotions, tools to increase tension, and more.
I set out to learn how to sell more books, but I found so much more. This research has changed not only how I write stories but how I view the world. It has changed my life. As authors, we represent the one sure fire way of changing people's lives. Why? Because it is only in a story that a person can experience deep empathy and truly see the world through a new set of eyes. I excited to share this with you.