go inside the mind and heart of a character to observe and feel story events just as that character does.
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how can I get readers to go on emotional journeys of their own?
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. Readers are having their own experience
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That experience can be elicited, or not, by any number of story elements: plot, setting, theme, mood, dialogue, and, yes, what characters themselves feel
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haracter arcs, journeys of self-discovery
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The language of emotion
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ou are not the author of what readers feel, just the provocateur of those feeling
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Characters aren’t actually real; only our own feelings are
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All manuscripts, as I said, need to make readers feel mo
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There are three primary paths to producing an emotional response in readers