Reader Response

How will you feel when you hear from readers that you have elicited the response you were aiming for? Imagine the one person who always understands you, reading this book and write for them. Imagine that they get it, every nuance. How does that make you feel

Oh wow. That would make me feel absolutelty incredible, to know that they understood everything in the story. I would be on top of the world.

Writing and Emotion

What kind of emotion do you want to elicit in your readers? How do your favorite books make you feel? How do you want your readers to feel as they read your book?

What kind of emotion do you want to elicit in your readers?
This is a very good question and (admittedly) is one I haven’t thought of before. In general, I guess I would want my readers to identify with my characters so much that they feel what they feel. If my character is sad, I want the reader to feel sad with them. If the character is happy, angry, jealous, etc, I want the reader to feel that emotion.

I want my characters to be so well rounded that readers will be able to identify with any type of emotion my characters are going through.

How do your favorite books make you feel?
When I have read a book that I have really enjoyed, the ending is bittersweet. On the one hand, I am happy and feel really good because I enjoyed the story so much that the book itself (and everything in it) has become a dear friend. But on the other hand, I am sad because the wonderful journey I have taken, the characters I have met, are now gone, their stories wrapped up in a conclusion.

How do you want your readers to feel as they read your book?
Refer to the first question.

What I Hate in a Creative Work

What do you absolutely hate in a Creative Work? What enrages you when you see it?

This isn’t so much something that enrages me, but it is an aspect of some creative works that I find really, really annoying. And that is…stories with to much description.

I mean, I understand that stories need to have description in order to make them rich, take the reader to the setting and make the reader see what the writer sees, but to much description bogs down the story, interrupting the flow. Especially if it continues for several pages.

Favorite Tales

What do you love in your favorite tales? Witty dialogue? Heroic characters? Descriptive prose? Realism? Escapism? Fast pacing? Slow descriptive prose?

Ooo…hard to say. For me, it would probably be dialogue and realism. While I won’t dismiss a book if it doesn’t have these things, I am the type of person who doesn’t really read sci-fi novels or fantasy novels. These are also genres I could never write.

I love dialogue, as it makes a character to come to life. With dialogue, there is a character who has feelings, emotions, goals, wants. In short, it’s a complex person, just like the people in real life.