Conflicting feelings snare readers
2nd June 2017 | for Creatives | characters, writing, reaching your audience, writer-reader relationship, Donald Maass |
"Conflicting feelings snare readers. They're a puzzle that demands solution, a cognitive dissonance that's too noisy to ignore."
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