Gretta Curran Browne
Don't think it can be done in a rush or too quickly. Just write it and see it and feel it.
If you cannot SEE your characters, or you cannot FEEL what they are feeling, then it won't have much resonance with the reader.
The first time I found myself crying while writing a chapter, I felt such a fool, until a short time later I came across these words -- "No tears from the writer, no tears from the reader."
And I suppose that's true for everything, including laughter and amusement.
If you cannot SEE your characters, or you cannot FEEL what they are feeling, then it won't have much resonance with the reader.
The first time I found myself crying while writing a chapter, I felt such a fool, until a short time later I came across these words -- "No tears from the writer, no tears from the reader."
And I suppose that's true for everything, including laughter and amusement.
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Gretta. Your Byron series captured so much emotion! Empathy, anger at mother who spent her life tormenting and belittling a child she brought into the world, elation that such a child grew up to success, kindness, drive to succeed, a devout friend to most who befriended him. Yet, a man whose heart was shadowed by sorrow. How did you research an individual from that time period? How much time did that research t
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