Challenge
Empathy
Make your readers care about your characters. It’s a piece of advice you hear a lot in the writing world. Strange, isn’t it, that invoking empathy is a marketable skill?
Anyway, try to make us connect with a character in one short paragraph.
Mommy, Where Are You?
Mommy, where are you? I saw you taking a picture of that big black bear, and I wanted to see if I could find more bears to play with me. Now all I see are trees and a really big river. Mommy, where are you?
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