If you’re getting feedback that readers can’t connect with your character, or "don’t understand why your character thinks/says/does certain things," you might have a WHY problem. Lisa Hall Wilson shows how to address it.

If you’re getting feedback that readers can’t connect with your character, or "don’t understand why your character thinks/says/does certain things," you might have a WHY problem. Lisa Hall Wilson shows how to address it.
Personification is efficient – it captures a big idea with just a few words. Here are four ways to use personification to create an immersive and emotionally deep experience for your readers.
Deep POV can ratchet up the emotional tension and pull the reader in close to experience the character’s inner conflict. It’s not important that readers SEE it, but more that they FEEL it.
Deep POV veteran, Lisa Hall Wilson, shares three exercises to help turn emotion loose on the page and free up your creativeness in ways that might surprise you.
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