4 Steps to Adding Emotion to Your Writing
Your writing is worthless if you don’t make the reader feel something
Find Your Gut
With both hands.
You know you have one. I weigh 110 pounds and I’ve got one. Just grab it and give it a little squeeze. If there’s enough to twist, do it. Now, remember that feeling.
You must grab a reader’s gut with both hands & not let go until they read your last line.
Anything less and you are wasting everyone’s time.
You can let go of your proud flesh now.
You know that in fiction, every scene MUST be written with an underlying emotion in mind, otherwise you should throw the scene out.
And marketing has to have emotion attached or you lose the sale.
My point of the opening exercise wasn’t to make you look silly sitting there with your gut in your hands; it was to show you that you can’t possibly twist your reader’s gut if you don’t know what it feels like.
But how do you get your hands on their guts?
