How the science of 'shared reality' helped you like Donny from Baby Reindeer...

...even though he was a bit of a dick

Storytellers sometimes worry about making their protagonists ‘likeable’. This is a mistake that invariably leads to dull fiction. I won’t last many pages of a novel in which the author seems to have tried really hard to make their lead character as inoffensive as possible. Their doing so is a signal that the story ahead is likely to be flat, boring and …