Welcome to Voices of Fiction.
We continue with our discussion of how to get the reader involved in the story.
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Liz Crowe’s groundbreaking romance sub-genre, “Romance for Real Life,” has gained thousands of fans and followers who are interested less in the “HEA” and more in the “WHA” (“What Happens After?”)
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Children’s Picture Book author, Clara Bowman-Jahn, of “Annie’s Special Day” is living the life of her dreams an hour at a time. - Website, Etreasures
Welcome Authors! It's wonderful to have you back.
This week's question: How do you get your readers involved in the story?
Cara Marsi: The main idea is to get the readers involved. I try to give them characters they can relate to and care about. I try to write in a fast-paced way that keeps the readers turning the pages.
Liz Crowe: I take a solid plot, craft intriguing, realistic characters including secondary ones because I like nice, layered stories, and add a twist or 2.
Terry W. Ervin II: I guess I don’t worry about getting readers involved in a story. I work to tell the best story I can in the most effective manner I can and let reader involvement work itself out. Trying to manipulate reader attention or emotion is certain to be fraught with pitfalls. That’s a can of worms I don’t care to open.
Clara Bowman-Jahn: It depends on the marketing. If I am at a story telling event it is easier. I just read the book with lots of questions interspersed and talk to the kids as I read it. Otherwise I depend on parents who read it to their child. I also have a craft we do on some occasions of making a clock and talking about numbers. It just depends on the age of the children.
Thank you all for joining us today.
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5 comments:
Great advice! I need a great character in an interesting situation to get me involved in a book.
It's true: writers are different, yet they aren't!
Great answers.
Thank you both for your continued support of the series.
It's interesting that my peers thought to engage the reader before the book was done and I thought you meant after. OF course one should try and write to the reader first before the Marketing. In that case I try to have engaging characters. Ones my readers can identify with. Characters are key to reader's engagement. :)
Clara, Sorry about the misunderstanding there. I read over your answer, but guess I had a duh moment. :)
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