Writing Units of Study - Session 13 - Mentors

Writing Units of Study - Session 13 - Mentors

How do you get readers to care about the characters in your story? 

• Try to share thoughts and emotion that you can relate to or that your reader will understand.

Angry Hilton Head Dad Story Share

• Where do you feel the emotion as a reader/listener?

• How can you inject emotion into your story?

Open Ended

Think about the realistic fiction book you are publishing right now! Tell us about a part in your book where you want the audience or your readers to feel a strong emotion. What emotion are you hoping they feel?

Pippi

• What did Astrid Lindgren do in her story that makes it so powerful?

• Did the author just say what Pippi did?

• She showed Pippi doing this, and did so in a way that put a Pippi-like imprint on the experience.

• Pippi did walk like you or I might walk, but she did so in her own adventurous way.

Open Ended

Share a focus area(s) you plan to improve before Friday's due date.