Crafting Believable Characters – 3 Easy Steps
Creating believable characters is the key to engaging storytelling. Readers invest in characters who feel real and express emotions, motivation,…
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How Writers Can Mine Emotions with Music
It’s really amazing, if you stop to think about it. Readers will willingly suspend disbelief and subject themselves to the…
How to Effectively “Tell” Emotions in Fiction
This post originally, drawn from material in my Emotional Mastery course, ran on Larry Brooks’s blog in the summer. Reprinted…
Why Writers Must Dig Deep to Mine Their Feelings
This post of mine originally ran on Positive Writer in August, 2019. Reprinted here for your enjoyment and edification! It’s…
The Emotional Power of Connected Settings
Chances are, you’ve heard of deep point of view. Imagine a camera lens that zooms in for a close-up; deep…
The Secret to Getting Readers to React Emotionally to Your Writing
Getting readers to feel something from our writing is hard. Even harder is to get them to feel complex emotions…
Every Novel Scene Should Contain a Death
I hope that catchy title intrigues you. I’ll explain. I’ve launched my new online course Emotional Mastery for Fiction Writers,…
The 3 Ways to Show Emotion in Your Characters
This month I’m launching my new online video course: Emotional Mastery for Fiction Writers. Let me just share a tiny bit…
The Connection between Character Emotion and Reader Empathy
Today’s guest post is by Becca Puglisi. Do you know how many books are on the market today? Neither do…
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