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.

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.

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.

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.