Sentences with phrase «readers care about her characters»

Do readers care about characters?)

With her «conversational writing style and a knack for making readers care about her characters» (The Washington Post) bestselling author Sarah Pekkanen paints a vivid, kaleidoscopic portrait of a marriage before and during a crisis — and of a woman who fears that the biggest secret of all may be the one she's hiding from herself.

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I try to write characters that readers will care about, for them to be on the edge of their seats in an action scene, and to be fascinated by whatever world I choose to create.

Once again, Atkinson carefully builds up her characters until the reader is invested in them and really cares about their fate.

«The more readers care about seeing whether our characters succeed or witnessing our characters» reactions to those consequences, the more likely readers will continue to turn pages.»

by Anne R. Allen You can learn all you want about writing powerful prose, well - planned story arcs, lyrical descriptions — or any other aspect of fiction — but if you don't have a protagonist your readers care about, none of the rest matters.I don't think it's terribly relevant to talk about character «likability» in the sense of «niceness.»

Ivey's ability to capture one's attention, to make one care about her characters, and to leave a reader without a single page on which she can stop for the night, is remarkable.

Readers have to fall in love with a character before they care even a little about an entire world.

The reader in me never likes a book that doesn't have characters I care about.

The Apothecary and The Apprentices have at their heart a group of characters that readers care deeply about, judging by the wonderful letters Meloy's young fans send her.

The main flaw though was probably the author's failure to make any of the characters (as kids or adults) particularly charismatic or compelling and so for a reader it was really difficult to care about their story.

Bottom line, the readers have to care about the characters.

It's no secret that, taken as a whole, young adult readers become very invested in the characters they come to care about, and the link between paper and an emotional investment is a strong one for many teens.

Natasha Lester has an excellent infographic in her article, On Writing Characters in a Novel and Making Sure Readers Care About Them:

I care about my readers, and my First Bite characters certainly have more stories to tell.

I suspect even erotica readers would want to read about characters who truly value and care for each other rather than just using each other for pleasure.

«High stakes» help your readers invest in your characters and stories; without them, we have no reason to care about the outcome of your book.

If digital comics do what they're supposed to do, which is bring in new readers, then there will be a whole lot of people who don't care about «checking up on» all these dusty old characters we've invested years in.

Writers hear all kinds of conflicting advice such as: you MUST introduce a compelling character in an inciting incident, but someone else says you MUST show that compelling character in his / her ordinary world; the reader MUST care about the character's previous life but then again, you MUST avoid backstory; world building that anchors characters and reader is vital but, no, you MUST NOT do anything that stops the forward momentum of the story....