Concept

Immersion

You might say: the fictional dream, getting lost in a book

The feeling of living inside the story. Gardner calls good fiction a “vivid and continuous dream”.

What it does

Lets the story work on the reader without them noticing the words.

Ask

What could wake the reader from the dream here?

Trouble

Head-hopping, confusing exposition or a jarring word pulls the reader out.

Sources

1. Susan DeFreitas, How Big of a Problem Is “Head Hopping”?, head-hopping sectionwe feel like we’re really in the mind of the POV character, living the story

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