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.
Safe Haven
They cried out and raised their weapons in the air. Some of them aimed for her calf. The rest of the hunters fired at her.
She charged at the ones running toward her baby. They fired their weapons again, and again. She came crashing down and watched them carry her baby away.
The sound of another car made her heart skip a beat. They chased the hunters, and managed to save her calf.
But by the time the calf returned to its Mother’s side, it was too late. The calf moved closer to lay by her side. The rescue party then carefully placed the calf in the back of their truck, and took it to the sanctuary.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=g8lDY1De1_s
9/13/2020