BASIC CONCEPTS

— When novelists claim they do not invent it, but hear voices and find stories in their head, they are neither joking nor crazy.

— When characters, narrators, or muses have minds of their own and occasionally take over, they are alternate personalities.

— Alternate personalities and memory gaps, but no significant distress or dysfunction, is a normal version of multiple personality.

— normal Multiple Personality Trait (MPT) (core of Multiple Identity Literary Theory), not clinical Multiple Personality Disorder (MPD)

— The normal version of multiple personality is an asset in fiction writing when some alternate personalities are storytellers.

— Multiple personality originates when imaginative children with normal brains have unassuaged trauma as victim or witness.

— Psychiatrists, whose standard mental status exam fails to ask about memory gaps, think they never see multiple personality.

— They need the clue of memory gaps, because alternate personalities don’t acknowledge their presence until their cover is blown.

— In novels, most multiple personality, per se, is unnoticed, unintentional, and reflects the author’s view of ordinary psychology.

— Multiple personality means one person who has more than one identity and memory bank, not psychosis or possession.

— Euphemisms for alternate personalities include parts, pseudonyms, alter egos, doubles, double consciousness, voice or voices.

— Multiple personality trait: 90% of fiction writers; possibly 30% of public.

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Sunday, April 2, 2017

Your “Unconscious” vs. Your Alternate Consciousness in Fiction Writing: Which concept is more likely to free up and make use of your full creative potential?

Most fiction writers believe that a major part of their best writing comes from their “unconscious.” What do they mean by their “unconscious”? They mean they do not remember thinking some of their best ideas, and so they must have thought it unconsciously.

But how can a mind think things if it is unconscious? Your mind must have been conscious when it thought these things, but you were not aware of it.

This implies you must have more than one consciousness: a regular consciousness and an alternate consciousness, and that the former is usually unaware of what the latter has been thinking.

What am I talking about? What are its implications? Do you expect instant gratification? You will have to read this whole blog, from the last four years, if you want to understand and make use of your full creative potential.
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