In a recent Writer's Digest article, David Corbett, author of The Art of Character, writes:
"People don't turn to stories to experience what you, the writer, have experienced--or even what your characters have. They read to have their own experience."
Note to self:
Write to give the reader an experience--of joy or sadness or fear or excitement--instead of merely reading about someone else's experience.
[First posted: November 27, 2015]
