How do you want you readers to feel?

Hey everyone!

Today, we will be talking about how do we want our readers to feel in our books.

From my experience when I started writing my book, “Her Million Miles.” I wanted

my book to make readers alike feel what I was feeling as I was writing it.

Although my book is a mystery and suspense, I wanted to have my readers experience

what my main character, Sabrina, was experiencing at a young age. I know it’s at some

point in our lives we have all come across some things that we cannot control. I like

to think as I wrote this book that the reader was brought back in time or rather a time

in their lives where they felt the most vulnerable at. This first book showed my

vulnerable side was when I even experienced some things that Sabrina did also.

There are sometimes when I read a book and it’s a sad part and my emotions get the

best of me but then there some really awesome books, I have read that fill my life

with excitement as I read them.

The best thing that I could say about how I wanted my readers to feel about my

books is feeling that they cannot stop reading they have to change or flip over each

page just to see what happens next in anticipation. The mystery that resides from

feeling somebody else’s woes and excitement in their life pursues them or persuades

them to feel their magic within themselves or what is looming around the bend for

them.

It is the contagiousness of reading a gripping book word from word, sentence by

sentence, paragraph by paragraph, and page by page in the nexus of its being.

To me, emotions are the Mecca of what a good book, an awesome book should feel

like to bring forth their humanity off the page as it jumps into the readers soul. So

that when the reader is done reading the book and done feeling all that emotion rather

good or bad sinister or laughter; they feel that they know that person in that book that

they can visually feel like either they can be their friend or their arch enemy on the

street.

It is quite then when a reader can honestly give their honest of this book on whatever

platform they bought the book from or got it as an e-book. There are some people

out here in the world that just simply love one genre, however, I love a lot of genres.

I’ve read romance, Westerns, supernatural, paranormal, mystery and suspense, and

horror but for me my genre that I love mystery and suspense, the most.

Although, I admittedly regret that when I’m writing my novel; I don’t read any books,

I don’t watch any TV, or anything that can distract me.

As in my second novel, “Imperfect Crossroads,” my main character, Sabrina goes

through the tender age of being a teen. In no certain uncertainty can anyone say they

haven’t learned anything from that time. The ups and downs in the now and every

which way around life as a young teenager has to be the most emotional foothold on

who we are as an adult. I can remember when I was thirteen and everything around

me felt like I was a new person but I was the same person but just a year older. In this

book, I wanted my readers to feel like they were brought back in time and could sense

the awkwardness being that age. Sabrina was just trying to defined herself in her world

around her parents, her peers, and the world around her.

In my third novel, “Oliver’s Road,” my main character, Sabrina is still adapting to her

age and what is going on around her. There are no spoilers here so you must read the

first book to find out what happens in the third book. Let’s just say, you will be

surprised on how much Sabrina grows through her family, her friends, and herself.

The best advice I can give to know who your readers are and how you are going to

have those readers feel about your book. Your readers will decide ultimately if they

will continue to read the very next book you write. Amazing novels are made off the

feelings people get from the imagination from your truths.

I hope this has helped you today on your path for writing your truths and if for

any reason you have more questions, please feel free to ask me at my author’s

inbox @ https://www.facebook.com/authormarinaobrix/

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