Monday, December 24, 2007

That emotional connection

In The Writer's Digest Writing Clinic, the fiction writer is encouraged to make sure he or she has made an "emotional connection" with the reader. One way to do this is for the writer to create an emotional bond between the reader and the protagonist of your story. How can the writer test this?

Assignment: "Ask a friend or a critique group member to read the opening pages of your novel and to place a star next to the point where he begins to feel an emotional bond with your central character. Does this point match up with what you intended? If it doesn't, rework the way the hook is presented. Are the supporting sentences too thick? Is the focus off?"

From The Writer's Digest Writing Clinic

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

I love the description, but could someone please tell me what a "thick sentence is"?