Donald Maass

go inside the mind and heart of a character to observe and feel story events just as that character does.

how can I get readers to go on emotional journeys of their own?

. Readers are having their own experience

That experience can be elicited, or not, by any number of story elements: plot, setting, theme, mood, dialogue, and, yes, what characters themselves feel

haracter arcs, journeys of self-discovery

The language of emotion

ou are not the author of what readers feel, just the provocateur of those feeling

Characters aren’t actually real; only our own feelings are

All manuscripts, as I said, need to make readers feel mo

There are three primary paths to producing an emotional response in readers