Psychic Distance: the fiction writer’s secret sauce. Over the years Emma has found that learning to work with psychic distance – often called narrative distance or emotional distance – is the game-changer for her students.

Sometimes you may want the reader to be deeply involved in your protagonists’ subjective perceptions, sometimes you might want the reader to have a wider and more objective experience of what’s happening in your story. Bringing together point-of-view, showing and telling, and narrative voice into a single, dynamic way to shape your narrative, psychic distance can and will transform your storytelling.

You”ll come to understand how psychic distance works, try your hand with the new tool in a series of exercises, study how good writers use it, and ask lots of questions to help you gain confidence with this crucial technique.

A handout will be sent after the event so that you don’t need to make extensive notes during the tutorial. Attendees at the event will receive a one month free subscription on substack to Emma’s blog This Itch of Writing.

If you aren’t able to attend in person, please sign up and request a recording which will be sent out a few days after the event along with the handout.

To find out more and book, click through to the Blue Pencil website.