I was watching Derren Brown's The Secret of Luck last night in which he exposed Sally Morgan as a fraud after the show invited her to visit a statue of a dog which was supposedly giving a town luck; little did she know that it was a skeptic Derren Brown's statue and he had planted the rumor amongst the town. Morgan went onto say the dog was definitely lucky, even giving a history of the dog's owners in life.
Sally's career has been under much scrutiny recently, however as a writer for a novel about a medium, it is all facinating reading. The tircks these mediums use and the stories of exposure allow you to see into the secrets of how mediums gain the confidence of an audience and manage to fool them.Opportunitism appears to be a big tactic for mediums, they see an opportunity to exploit as 'power' and take it. Opportunity was very much the focus of Derren Brown's show last night, which Morgan took but unfortunatly for her exposed as a fraud.
The novel 'The Medium' is coming along nicely and as mentioned in an earlier blog I have completed a lot of research into stories of exposure of various famous mediums, spiritulality books and psychology books. While many people would just laugh and switch the channel or turn the page of a newspaper, I'm taking note of every move and forming the novel which I hope to finish in the coming months!
I'm up to 37,000 words on the medium now. My mornings to work are imagining I was the characters in the book, how my friends and family would act if I was Jackie (the medium) or how I would feel being Michael (the victim). What situations I would face and how that can be put down on paper to become an interesting work of fiction.
