Eliciting Emotion
Eliciting emotion – the best way to influence behaviour. Science isn’t good at using emotion to influence, time for fiction to step in and creative the narratives we need…
Tag: writing
Threads of Connection Sets Sail
I launched Threads of Connection in Christchurch tonight. Read on for a summary of how I came to write a novel about climate change, bombing as a viable form of protest, and how crucial community is in challenging times.
Inspiration, Perspiration and Trickery
There’s a famous quote saying that success requires far more perspiration than inspiration. I suggest success may also require some trickery – of oneself. Read on to find out how and why.
Perspectives & inspiration
Problem solving can require a different view, like on a recent mountain bike ride. I’d tackled the same rock the same wrong way, year after year. It took someone else with a new method to show me what was possible.
Letters from Paradise – a short story
A creative account of what travel might be like in COVID times…once we are allowed to travel.