Unlock the Mind of a Visionary Storyteller

A Deep-Dive Writing Course for Thinkers, Storytellers, and the Chronically Curious

What if reality isn’t broken… What if it was never stable to begin with? Philip K. Dick didn’t just write science fiction. He wrote diagnostic fiction. Stories that don’t predict the future so much as expose the present. Stories that make you question memory, identity, authority, technology, and the quiet systems that decide what is real and what is not. This course is not about learning facts about Philip K. Dick. It’s about learning how he thought. How he wrote. Why his work still feels disturbingly current. And how you, as a writer, can use his ideas and techniques to create fiction that actually means something. If you’ve ever felt that modern storytelling plays it too safe… If you’re tired of neat endings and comfortable lies… If you suspect that the most interesting stories live where certainty breaks down… You’re in the right place. Why Philip K. Dick? Why Now? Dick was dismissed in his lifetime as paranoid, messy, uncommercial, and unstable. He was also right. About almost everything. He understood—long before the rest of us caught up—that: * Reality is mediated * Identity is fragile * Technology rewrites meaning, not just behavior * Authority survives without truth * Empathy is the last defense against dehumanization We now live inside the world he warned us about. * Social media identities. * Manufactured outrage. * Predictive systems. * Artificial intelligence. * Surveillance cultures. * Symbolic value replacing material value. Even the story of his rejected Barbie-currency idea—dismissed because “no one would believe a toy could be valuable”—now reads like dark comedy in an age of digital assets, collectibles, and speculative virtual economies. Dick didn’t imagine gadgets. He imagined consequences. This course shows you how. This is a writer’s course, not a fan lecture. You will not just study Philip K. Dick’s themes. You will learn how to use them. Across the course, we’ll explore: * How Dick destabilizes reality without exposition dumps * How he builds immersive worlds by removing certainty * How paranoia becomes the only rational response * How time, memory, and identity are weaponized * How empathy functions as moral currency * Why ambiguity is sometimes the most honest ending And crucially: 👉 How to apply these techniques to your own fiction, screenwriting, or narrative projects. This course is designed to make your writing braver, sharper, and more intellectually alive. What You’ll Learn (Without the Marketing Fluff) By the end of this course, you will: * Understand why Philip K. Dick’s work still dominates modern film, television, and games * Be able to analyze reality-based storytelling at a structural level * Know how to write worlds that feel wrong in the right way * Use uncertainty as a narrative engine instead of a weakness * Craft characters whose psychological instability feels human, not gimmicky * Build stories that linger because they refuse to resolve This is not about copying Dick’s style. It’s about learning how to think dangerously on the page. Course Breakdown (What You’ll Actually Study) You’ll move through a carefully structured series of lessons covering: • Dick’s Narrative Style How his prose creates tension through confusion, fragmentation, and psychological pressure. • Reality as a Moving Target Why Dick treats reality itself as unreliable—and how that changes storytelling rules. • Identity Under Pressure Androids, doubles, false memories, and fractured selves—and what they say about being human. • Time as Meaning Including a deep study of Counter-Clock World and “Your Appointment Will Be Yesterday,” where time runs backwards and meaning collapses with it. • Bureaucracy, Power, and Systems Why the real villains in Dick’s stories are procedures, not people. • Film Adaptations That Worked In-depth analysis of Blade Runner, Total Recall, and Minority Report—why they succeeded, what they changed, and why they still matter. • Dick’s Legacy in Modern Media From Black Mirror to gaming, streaming narratives, and contemporary culture. • Writing Lessons for Today Concrete techniques you can apply immediately to fiction, screenwriting, and narrative design. Every lesson is written in clear, conversational prose. No academic fog. No theory for theory’s sake. Just ideas that actually help you write better stories. This course is for you if: * You write science fiction, speculative fiction, or literary fiction * You’re interested in identity, reality, technology, and power * You want your stories to say something, not just entertain * You admire ambiguity more than tidy answers * You suspect that the most important conflicts are internal, systemic, or invisible It’s especially valuable for: * Writers * Screenwriters * Game and narrative designers * Thinkers who use fiction to explore uncomfortable truths You do not need to be a science-fiction specialist. You just need curiosity—and a tolerance for uncertainty. Philip K. Dick once wrote that reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn’t go away. This course asks a harder question: What if the things that do go away… Were never real to begin with? If you want to write stories that unsettle, provoke, and linger— If you want to understand why Dick still matters— If you want your work to feel intellectually alive… Then this course is for you. Enroll now, and step into the unstable worlds that changed modern storytelling forever. Keep Writing!