Dream world (plot device) - Wikipedia
The tendency to craft fictional realms is a natural human instinct, argues media scholar Mark Wolf in Building Imaginary Worlds (2012), a comprehensive study on constructed worlds. Our fascination begins in childhood. Youthful proclivities for fairy tales (“Once upon a time, in a land far, far away”) and the imaginary “[do] not change over time,” W... See more
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navigating this Otherworld, and metaphor as the
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work. In reading books that focus on how authors create the “fictive dream,” you can learn a lot about how other writers crafted plots, characters, setting, dialogue, pacing, and virtually all of the elements involved in writing fiction (novels, screenplays, plays, short stories, and so on).