Showing posts with label The Writers Job is to Help Readers Experience Fiction. Show all posts
Showing posts with label The Writers Job is to Help Readers Experience Fiction. Show all posts

Monday, July 23, 2018

The Writer’s Job is to Help Readers Experience Fiction


by Ane Mulligan @AneMulligan


We’ve all read novels that held us tightly engaged from page one to “The End.” Then we’ve read others that while good, we could read a chapter and put it down. There can be various reasons, but I believe when we can experience the story not just read it, we overlook a multitude of possible problems. 

So how do we get a book that offers an experience? By taking a lesson from a layer cake.