Triggering that all-important reaction

A reminder that key to good writing is making the experience feel real for the reader, a major part of my teaching of authors.

You need to evoke a reaction in your reader and this is done through triggers, using your reader’s associations to evoke a reaction. How do you do that?

Well, why not start by playing on:

Their memories

Their connections to places and people

Their prejudices and preconceptions?

Their response to weather conditions - snow, rain, heat etc

Their deeply felt fears and phobias?

All this came to mind in one of our entries to the latest Global Short Story Competition which did it beautifully. You can enter at www.inscribemedia.co.uk




John Dean