HEARTICLES: Articles with Heart

The Five W’s in journalism have long been considered the concepts used in basic information gathering, particularly in police investigations. The principle is that each question cannot be answered with a simple yes or no, but must elicit factual answers. This is a formula for getting the full story on something. For the crime report, the Five W’s must be answered, as well as an H and M. This formula is not just ideal for writers of mystery, suspense, thrillers, crime and detective novels (which I’ll categorize as thrillers), but also for anyone writing most fictional stories. Let’s look at our checklist-- Who? – Who are your protagonists? For a romance, who are the hero and heroine? And who are the antagonists? For thrillers, who was the victim? Who are the suspects? You need at least one victim and one suspect. Also, your ‘who’ includes your investigator(s). ‘Who’ in ‘A Piece of My Heart’: My protagonists are Michael ‘Mick’ Spillane and Kathleen “Kate” Conneely, two people who grew ...

When I say senses, what comes to mind first? Sight? Sound? Smell, taste, and touch? You’d be right. But what about the others? Did you know there are actually more than twenty senses? There are, and they’re broken down into two categories: exteroception and interoception . Exteroceptive senses include the basic five senses: sight, sound, scent, taste, and touch, as defined by Aristotle. As the name implies, it refers to external senses. But have you ever heard of interoceptive senses? Those refer to internal senses. Here are a few to ponder: Proprioception – While exteroceptors are responsible for information from outside the body such as the eyes, ears, mouth, and skin, and interoceptors give information about the internal organs, proprioception is awareness of movement derived from muscular, tendon, and articular sources. It is the sense of the relative position of neighboring parts of the body. It also indicates whether the body is moving with required effort. Proprioreceptors are...