Evoking Emotion in Fiction: 7 Pragmatic Ways to Make Readers Give a Damn

In Writer’s Digest, author Dustin Grimmel gives these 7 ways to engage readers. Do you agree?

• Evoking Emotion #1: Positive moral judgments about the protagonist
• Evoking Emotion #2: A protagonist who wants something really badly
• Evoking Emotion #3: A protagonist who pursues their desires
• Evoking Emotion #4: A protagonist who never gives up
• Evoking Emotion #5: Characters who do the right thing
• Evoking Emotion #6: The benefits of sorrow
• Evoking Emotion #7: Characters helped by unseen hands

Read more at Writers Digest.