{"id":26382,"date":"2022-12-05T08:41:00","date_gmt":"2022-12-05T16:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/?p=26382"},"modified":"2023-04-04T04:35:31","modified_gmt":"2023-04-04T11:35:31","slug":"world-building-and-mental-models","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/05\/world-building-and-mental-models\/","title":{"rendered":"World Building and Mental Models"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/How-To-Write-The-Future-blog-post-images-2.png\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-26383 size-medium\" title=\"World Building and Mental Models - How To Write the Future podcast\" src=\"https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/How-To-Write-The-Future-blog-post-images-2-300x300.png\" alt=\"World Building and Mental Models - How To Write the Future podcast\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/How-To-Write-The-Future-blog-post-images-2.png 300w, https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/How-To-Write-The-Future-blog-post-images-2-80x80.png 80w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Beth Barany shares insight into building your characters\u2019 reality to make it stand out to readers and how our models of reality can shift in this episode World Building and Mental Models.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Platforms<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">the podcast is available on include <a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/22-world-building-and-mental-models\/id1641025914?i=1000588773267\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Apple Podcasts<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.google.com\/feed\/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5idXp6c3Byb3V0LmNvbS8yMDEyMDYxLnJzcw\/episode\/QnV6enNwcm91dC0xMTgxMzQ4Mg?sa=X&amp;ved=2ahUKEwigiej78OL7AhUJLRoKHUgJD0IQkfYCegQIARAF\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Google Podcasts<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/episode\/3G9pEKAVb5IhoXAooa70ld\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Spotify<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.buzzsprout.com\/2012061\/11813482-22-world-building-and-mental-models\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Buzzsprout<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/music.amazon.com\/podcasts\/ca590618-5630-4450-aa17-7e2f35359a76\/episodes\/42e0f8f7-cd2c-44b5-9e61-48e3b9eaad7a\/how-to-write-the-future-22-world-building-and-mental-models\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Amazon Music<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/podcastaddict.com\/episode\/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.buzzsprout.com%2F2012061%2F11813482-22-world-building-and-mental-models.mp3&amp;podcastId=4025186\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Podcast Addict<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/NpGX9CjEYhI\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Youtube<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/NpGX9CjEYhI\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div id=\"buzzsprout-large-player\"><\/div>\n<p><script type='text\/javascript' charset='utf-8' src='https:\/\/www.buzzsprout.com\/2012061.js?container_id=buzzsprout-large-player&#038;player=large'><\/script><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><b>ABOUT BETH BARANY\u00a0<\/b><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/BETH-BARANY_IMAGE_PODCAST-LOGO_HOW-TO-WRITE-THE-FUTURE_v04_200px.png\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-25580 size-full\" title=\"Image of Beth Barany\" src=\"https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/BETH-BARANY_IMAGE_PODCAST-LOGO_HOW-TO-WRITE-THE-FUTURE_v04_200px.png\" alt=\"Image of Beth Barany\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/BETH-BARANY_IMAGE_PODCAST-LOGO_HOW-TO-WRITE-THE-FUTURE_v04_200px.png 200w, https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/BETH-BARANY_IMAGE_PODCAST-LOGO_HOW-TO-WRITE-THE-FUTURE_v04_200px-80x80.png 80w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a>Beth Barany is an award-winning novelist, certified creativity coach for writers, and a workshop facilitator. In addition to her how-to books for writers, Beth has published books in several genres including young adult fantasy, paranormal romance, and science fiction mystery.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\">Learn more about Beth Barany at these sites:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"http:\/\/author.bethbarany.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Author site<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \/\u00a0 <\/span><a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"http:\/\/bethbarany.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Coaching site<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \/ <\/span><a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"http:\/\/baranyschooloffiction.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">School of Fiction<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \/ <\/span><a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.writersfunzone.com\/blog\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Writer&#8217;s Fun Zone blog<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\">RESOURCES<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><b>The Milky Way Galaxy<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/solarsystem.nasa.gov\/resources\/285\/the-milky-way-galaxy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">https:\/\/solarsystem.nasa.gov\/resources\/285\/the-milky-way-galaxy\/<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><b>Milky Way a part of newly identified galactic super cluster<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.firstpost.com\/living\/milky-way-part-newly-identified-galactic-super-cluster-1697237.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">https:\/\/www.firstpost.com\/living\/milky-way-part-newly-identified-galactic-super-cluster-1697237.html<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><b>Flavoring<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Flavoring#Perception_of_flavorings\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Flavoring#Perception_of_flavorings<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><b>What gives food flavor?<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/kitchenhelpdot.com\/what-gives-food-flavor\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">https:\/\/kitchenhelpdot.com\/what-gives-food-flavor\/<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><b>World Building Support on Writers Fun Zone<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/world-building-resources-for-fiction-writers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/world-building-resources-for-fiction-writers\/<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><b>Sign up for the 30-minute Story Success Clinic here<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/story-success-clinic\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/story-success-clinic\/<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\">SHOW NOTES<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\">\u201cWe each have unique maps of reality that are specific to our species, specific to our environment, and even down to the specific location where you live, your parents, your heritage, even the food we eat.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In this podcast episode of How To Write the Future, titled <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">World Building and Mental Models<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, creativity coach and science fiction and fantasy novelist Beth Barany, shares insight into building your characters\u2019 reality to make it stand out to readers and discusses examples of the ways our models of reality can shift.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><b>ABOUT THE <\/b><b><i>HOW TO WRITE THE FUTURE<\/i><\/b><b> PODCAST<\/b><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">How To Write The Future<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> podcast is for science fiction and fantasy writers who want to write positive futures and successfully bring those stories out into the marketplace. Hosted by Beth Barany, science fiction novelist and creativity coach for writers.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\">Tips for fiction writers!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\">This podcast is for you if you have questions like:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\">How do I create a believable world for my science fiction story?<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\">How do figure what&#8217;s not working if my story feels flat?<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\">How do I make my story more interesting and alive?<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\">This podcast is for readers too if you\u2019re at all curious about the future of humanity.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\">TRANSCRIPT for Episode 22 World Building and Mental Models<\/span><\/h2>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><b>00:00 You&#8217;re Invited to Sign Up for a Story Success Clinic\u00a0<\/b><\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\">Hey, science fiction and fantasy authors, would you like to get more exposure for your books and get some support to uncover story ideas, enhance story cohesion, and get some ideas for marketing?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\">Then sign up for my 30-minute Story Success Clinic.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\">Every 30-minute story success clinic is recorded and gets aired as an episode of the How To Write The Future podcast.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\">So sign up today. The link is in the show notes. And now let&#8217;s get on with the show.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><b>00:35 PODCAST INTRO<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\">Hey, everyone. Beth Barany here. Welcome creatives. This is a podcast for science fiction and fantasy writers who want to create positive, optimistic stories.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\">Because when we vision, what is possible, we help make it so.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\">This podcast is also for readers who are inspired by thinking about the future and about what could be.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\">01:00 On with the show\u2026 We&#8217;re Swimming in Our Culture<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\">Alright, so we&#8217;re, we&#8217;re actually swimming in our culture all the time and that makes it really hard to see what makes things work or even how things could be different.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\">In NLP we call that ecology. It is everything around us that actually supports us and keeps us operating, functioning, and we also take it for granted.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\">So like a fish, A fish doesn&#8217;t know that it&#8217;s swimming in a sea necessarily, and doesn&#8217;t even understand or can comprehend the reality of people living on the land walking around on two legs. Humans, we don&#8217;t know what it&#8217;s like to have the life of a bird, for example, flying and catching food while we, you know, fly midair.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\">Cats don&#8217;t know what it&#8217;s like to be a dog, we think so.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\">So all, all of this to say that we each have unique maps of reality that are specific to our species, specific to our environment, and even down to the specific location where you live, your parents, your heritage, even the food we eat, the air we breathe, and even more broadly, Earth&#8217;s gravitational field. It has a very specific impact on us that shapes us in every waking moment.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\">Our unique place in the solar system, just the earth, the third rock from the sun. And then our solar system is part of the Milky Way galaxy. And that Milky Way galaxy is part of a wider super massive supercluster of galaxies called Laniakea &#8212; Laniakea.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\">So all of these things have an impact on who we are. When you imagine that far out, you know that galaxies of galaxies make this big supercluster called Laniakea. You know, it puts a whole different perspective for me about life on Earth. I find thinking about the stars really comforting. It helps me relax and it actually helps me come back to myself, which brings me back to maps.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\">03:05 Building Your Fictional World<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\">When we build a fictional world, you wanna situate your character in a specific time and place, which is relative, meaning it&#8217;s in relationship to other times and other places, specifically what came before, who came before, and what are the other areas in your region that have an impact or influence or pressure on where your characters live.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\">So how do we start making these mental models of reality explicit?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\">All of your characters have mental models of their reality, and you as an author, as a person on this planet right now listening to this have a mental model of reality.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\">So, let me see if I can define a little bit what I mean by mental model or mental map.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\">We all unconsciously, mostly unconsciously, develop ways of perceiving the world that we perceive as real or true from the time we are very, very young.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\">Brain scientists have shown that our brain is predicting what happens in every next second. Before it happens our brain is actually gonna predict what&#8217;s gonna happen based on what has come before.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\">The brain is always constructing models of reality to save time, cuz our brain is all about saving energy and it is building on everything that came before.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\">04:30 What You Believe is a Good Breakfast<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\">So let&#8217;s take an example, Consider something you believe to be true right now that was different than before, and I&#8217;m gonna pick something really mundane, like what you believe is a good breakfast.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\">Chances are years ago, maybe even months ago, you believed something was really excellent for breakfast, that maybe now you don&#8217;t.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\">For example, I used to love eggs for breakfast with kale. I loved it. I would steam the kale with my eggs. It was delicious. And I had that for a few years. And before that though, my very favorite breakfast was peanut butter and banana sandwich on rye toast.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\">I loved it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\">And now I know that those two things &#8230; For one hand, you know, eating peanut butter and banana and bread, those are all actually not good for me anymore, and I&#8217;m just not interested in eggs and kale for some reason. I don&#8217;t know why. Now it&#8217;s oatmeal and I add some herbs and spices and a little monk fruit and stevia.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\">That&#8217;s the best breakfast. Absolutely. Hands down, you cannot convince me otherwise.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\">So this is an example of how our beliefs shift, but also how our model of reality can shift.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\">And also what we believe is true, that becomes our reality.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\">Another way of looking at it is beliefs are a scaffolding of our reality, but also the construction material.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\">Our deeply held beliefs shape our reality because they shape our choices.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\">Here&#8217;s another example. When I was a small child, it was perfectly acceptable for my mom to pile in all of us four kids and friends into the big Ford Station wagon and go grocery shopping with no seat belts. It was in the seventies and early eighties, in Northern California.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\">But would this happen today?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\">No way, but it was normal then. No one questioned it. That was our map of reality.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\">So let&#8217;s take it back to your story.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\">What are the activities and behaviors that your characters take for granted?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\">Your job as the writer and world builder is to get really, really clear on what is normal for your characters and what is abnormal.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\">I like to think of a typical day for my characters and ask them questions. Or sometimes I run a mental movie of the day, jotting down anything that stands out different than what I am familiar with than what I would normally experience.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\">Something to keep in mind is that your readers have this world, the world we live in, to compare with anything that you create.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\">So you as the writer, need to describe what is strange to us, but normal to your character, in terms that we all can relate to.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\">For another example, let&#8217;s go back to the breakfast example. My main character, Janey McCallister, she has a favorite breakfast too, I&#8217;m sure, even though I haven&#8217;t highlighted it in my current book that I&#8217;m working on, but I do know her habits from her previous, my previous books that I&#8217;ve written already, the first four books in the series.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\">Janey likes coffee like me. Of course, she does, right? I&#8217;ve modeled her after me, but I haven&#8217;t decided how she makes her coffee because it hasn&#8217;t come up in the story.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\">But I have another character who comes to her house in the story and makes dinner for Janey, but makes it by hand instead of using that stupid food crafter in the kitchen. It&#8217;s a 3D printer, a food printer, that everyone can have in their house. It&#8217;s as common as, as a microwave or a hot plate. And the food is created out of basic powders that have all the vitamins and micronutrients everyone needs to survive. And there&#8217;s flavorings that can be added in a very specific way to give each item its unique flavor and smell.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\">To think through the 3D printer, food printer, I had to, and I have been researching the amazing rabbit hole that is: what is taste, what is flavor? What determines the taste of food? I really need to understand these things so I can change it in some way for my science fiction story.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\">And that&#8217;s the kind of research I just adore.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\">And that&#8217;s the kind of research and the level of specificity that you need to know to bring your character&#8217;s story alive in the minds and your hearts and your readers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\">So just a little window into creative process. I usually put what I think is interesting and fun and science fiction-y, cause I&#8217;m writing science fiction, obviously put all these interesting things into the story in the earlier drafts, and then in the later drafts, I really work hard to create a wow factor, really emphasize all the ways in which the story world is new and different from ours, but still recognizable.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\">So I work really hard to bridge the gap so that you could imagine walking into a kitchen and seeing a 3D printer and ordering up your breakfast and whatever.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\">You want your readers to feel they are somewhere new and that place stretches their notion of what is possible.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\">And that all comes back to your character&#8217;s mental model of reality.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\">09:42 OUTRO: INVITE TO STORY SUCCESS CLINIC<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\">Write long and prosper.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\">If you would like help bringing your unique story world to life, then sign up for a Story Success Clinic. I am now scheduling for January 2023.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>***<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Loved this episode? 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