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Begin with the headline: Raise Readers' Emotional Stakes to Exhilerate Feelings. Why is berserker capitalized in the lower deck head? When using bullet points, one does not typically put punctuation at the end of the statement. In the phrase, "readers' emotional stakes," the plural would be used. "The insights of this artical are a blending of...." "Because of empathy, emotional understanding... ...in our human DNA. Again, bullet points tend to not have punctuation. That would read better with "has little to do with a reader's:" and then drop Readers' on each bullet. Under 3. Dropping "exhilarating," "of the story," and "five" "...conjure these strategies..." Changing "Induce," to using makes me think much less of a woman giving birth. in 3.3 "the direct the reader's," you missed the apostrophe. 3.4 exacerbate sounds like ... what's wrong with "increase?" "...to cry and grieve," Again, increase works much better than the next use of "Induce." Maybe, "Just because a character experience an emotion, does not mean the reader will feel the same way." "hit the protagonist in the temple." "But whatever emotion the reader is feeling.... ...the chraracter's suffering." (No need for the echo of feeling or intensifies.) You left off a "to be," or something in the bullet point of avoiding repetition. Perhaps, "Steer clear of repeating like sufferings as the character might appear as whiny and weak." "It's about sympathy and empathy..." "Attempting to stimulate sympathy and empathy might be used to understand why.... This will include something traumatic in her past." "cry and grieve" again. I don't think I've ever head of an emotion forest. Perhaps using emotional, will get your farther. "Use jeapoardy to direct a reader's ... character's imminent danger." If the quote is "You have to have," I'd still change it to "you must have." "To make the reader focus on a ...." "Never threaten...." Remove "which is unbearable." "...close the book rather than read such anguish." "Pursuer and the prey." Wrong pray v prey. The "precisely that is the key sentence ..." I think you simply mean: "This is why to use a character in jeopardy in the story." Never use "has to," but rather "must." I do not see how it would be a twist to find that most characters would accept sex rather than pain, but ...... Again, no punctuation in bullet points. "more sexual tension the reader experiences." Add the "s." Does the reader have the attraction or the couple you're writing about? "smoothly it is..." Again, change "have to," to "must." Again, no punctuation at the end of bullet points. "We raise readers' emtional stakes" (plural.) I don't understand the "how, which is with...." Soak your story with "these" five ....

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Donald J. Claxton - The Timberlander
Donald J. Claxton - The Timberlander

Written by Donald J. Claxton - The Timberlander

Donald J. Claxton is The Timberlander, focused on off-grid living, woodworking, basswood carving, and pallet wood rustic modern projects.

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