Can You Map Your Story’s Subliminal Coordinates?

Let Nabokov show you the way

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The first time I ever heard the term subliminal coordinates, I was at the Sirenland Writers Conference, in a workshop with the incomparable fiction writer Jim Shepard, who also teaches at Williams College.

Jim described subliminal coordinates as “coded signals that fire like neurons inside the text to tell…