Archive for May, 2011

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]