HOW TO MAKE LIVES BETTER FOR WOMEN IN THIS SOCIETY

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For the final edition of this blog series, I will talk about perhaps the most common aspect of the topic- our dear society. It’s not like none of us knows what goes on in the society, what happens behind the doors of houses, what happens in the gossip of people and what is said in the pointless taunts and remarks passed as a part of routine. Therefore, I will not waste words trying to explain what is wrong, neither will I mention how to right it. I will simply mention the efforts that are already underway because luckily once again, this is one of the aspects that has had some light shed on to it in recent years. Every other week we see stories, posts and campaigns on social media. A new harassment case, rape cases, and murder cases against women and trust me when I say that it’s the social media that brings all of these cases into light and tries to ensure justice for the victims. Our paper and TV media is controlled, they are forced to deliver a narrative in order to delude the publi...
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HOW TO INVOKE EMOTION FROM YOUR READERS

 HOW TO INVOKE EMOTION FROM YOUR READERS:

So, to start off, we all know that any reader loves a well-written story; an interesting and captivating piece of fiction that they can immerse themselves within. What readers like even more is feeling what they are reading. Having emotion evoked within them for the work of fiction they are reading.

To help you in better evoking emotion through your writing, given below are a list of tips to follow.

  • MAKE IT SO THAT YOUR CHARACTER’S ARE RELATABLE:

This piece of advice is particularly important to follow. It’s been mentioned time and time again but it’s really important to make sure that your characters, whether it’s the protagonist or antagonist, seem human to the readers; relatable.

This can only be done by making your readers invested in the characters, make them want to know more about them, to know about their background histories, to know about their relationships with other characters.

This is made apparent through an example given below:

Suppose you have a pair of siblings as your characters, it will be difficult to invoke emotion if you simply show them to be fighting relentlessly, or if a sudden confrontation just comes up. 

What will, in turn inspire emotion to arise within the reader during this supposed confrontation is if you’ve previously shown the siblings having an actual relationship; one filled with fun, teasing banter, one where they might perhaps have each other’s backs, little scenes in the story where they might be shown enjoying playing a prank together or even exchanging playful dialogue while watching a movie.

If you have shown this, and then have them argue with each other, the reader will be all the more immersed and feel the emotions of the characters personally.

  • USE APPROPRIATE WORDS:

The words you use in your descriptions are very important. Avoid the typical descriptive sentences, use something fresh and specific instead. For example:

Avoid using sentences like: ‘He was so scared that he could feel his heart beating in his chest.”

Instead, you could say: ‘He didn’t understand it, he felt his forehead grow clammy, and his face in the mirror reflected a gaunt and hollow man who was too pale to be healthy.’

Try to replace the typical cliches.

  • BUILD UP THE EMOTIONS:

It’s all about building up an emotion. It can start out as fleeting, any reader will be happy or lightened when they read a happy moment, any reader will feel sad or angry if a character is upset, yet the emotion invoked is all the more so when it is built up. Moments of minute happiness that can become a moment of tear-jerking joy for the character. Moments for angst that become bone-aching grief, thoughts of self-justified anger leading to unbridled fury. It is all about how you portray it and build it up.

I hope you found these tips helpful, and that it will help your writing journey become all the more convenient and easy to do.

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