How to Write Stories That Make People Feel Something
Reach your reader emotionally, and they’ll love you for it
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3 min readDec 16, 2020
The best writers strive for an emotional reaction to their writing. They use the skills they’ve mastered to create hope, sadness, empathy, fear, or another emotion. Using emotions, the writer connects with the reader.
How do you write an emotional story?
Mastering emotional writing isn’t easy. Writers create an emotional response by digging into their own psyche. The result is the reader will feel anxiety, hope, happiness, or fear.
To write a story that makes readers emotional, write about things that create emotions in your own life.
- Write about what excites you
- Write about what motivates you
- Write about what scares you
- Write about what or who you love
- Write about what you hate
- Write about what angers you
- Write about what challenges you
- Write about what saddens you
- Write about what or who you’ve lost
- Write about what you care about
