Mastering the Essential Story Emotions: How to Seduce the Reader

ABOUT THE WEBINAR Imagine sitting in a theatre after seeing a terrible film. As the end credits roll, the director and writer rush on stage to defend their work over the crowd’s booing—“But we read all the books, taken all the seminars… We followed all the rules and principles of the hero’s journey… We structured it well, had all the plot points at the right timing… We even had the hero save a cat, for crying out loud! What’s wrong with you?!” Silly, right? But this is the mentality of most aspiring writers who ignore the one unshakable truth of storytelling: “It’s not about what happens to people on a page; it’s about what happens to a reader in his heart and mind.” In other words, it’s all about engaging the reader emotionally. That’s what craft is all about. A story is a dance of reader emotions. The more felt, the more satisfying the story. And it’s your job as a writer to know not only what these emotions are but how to create them on the page on a consistent basis. Otherwise, the