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Something Has to Happen
By Laura Zinn Fromm
Don't kid yourself, anything we write/post/publish and offer
to their world as our own combination of
words ultimately has to be thought of
as entertainment. If this makes you cringe, read on. Your writing does not have
to make the reader happy, sad, angry or relieved, but it does have to take the
reader somewhere and it does have to move the reader in some way. Your main
character(s) have to move towards something. S/he can progress or regress but
there has to be change. There can be movement towards birth, rebirth,
revelation, disappointment, death or disaster, but the work must move in some
way. Something has to happen.
It is possible that the essence of the work is a simple revelation: The character remembers something, or sees something, or does something, and it can be a very small thing, but the impact must be felt and it must lead to some kind of transformation, however minor.
We writers are selfish beasts, and of course, we write to express ourselves. But while our writing can be healing and therapeutic for us, we must remember that we are taking the reader along on our journey and s/he must feel stirred by what we write. You must always ask yourself, where I am going with this and why is the reader going to care?
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