THE SLAB™ | THE INNERKILLER EDITORIALExamine the Toe-Tagged Tales While They’re Still Warm.
The finished story is only half the fun.
The Slab is where we pull apart the psychology, characters, and craft behind InnerKiller fiction; then examine what makes the whole thing work.
WHAT HAPPENS HERENothing Leaves the Table Unexamined.
Stories arrive finished. We put them back under the light.
The Slab explores the choices beneath InnerKiller fiction: how characters are constructed, why certain motives work, where tension comes from, what symbolism does in the background, and how an idea becomes worth reading.This isn't the Morgue. That's where the stories live. The Slab is where we take them apart.
CHOOSE YOUR SIDEBuild Her. Then Build the Story Around Her.
ARCHITECTURE
FOR THE CHARACTER
Before the story, there was her.
Explore the psychological architecture behind an InnerKiller character: identity, wounds, motives, contradictions, behavioral patterns, and the decisions that turn an idea into an iKProfile™.
NARRATIVE
FOR THE STORY
Then somebody has to make her worth reading.
Explore the craft behind the narrative: tension, structure, pacing, symbolism, voice, consequence, and the choices that turn psychological architecture into fiction.