Fiction Applied

Hello! Welcome to Fiction Applied. I'm Geoff Cassidy, a reader, writer, and story teller. 
Ever since I was a kid, I have always loved stories, and I decided to make this channel devoted to breaking stories down and figuring out what makes them work. I wanted to know how J. K. Rowling made Hogwarts, how I learned more about humanity from East of Eden than all my history classes, and how Orwell and Dostoevsky were able to see and predict what everyone else seemed to miss.

I want to discover why and how fiction stories often offer more truth than anything else.

Some of my favorite writers are J. R. R. Tolkien, Alexandre Dumas, J. K Rowling, Gene Wolfe, John Steinbeck, Haruki Murakami, Kentaro Miura, and Naoki Urasawa.

Favorite TV shows are The Prisoner (1967), True Detective, Gintama, Fullmetal Alchemist, and Pluto. 

Top Movies are Millers Crossing, Hail Caesar, Fight Club, Arrival, Summer Wars, Spirited Away, and Interstellar