This is excellent advice and results in enriched writing. The kind where we can show and not tell what is happening. Taking this line of thinking one step further, I believe the ability to mirror at the neurological level leads to empathy. When we write in a way that allows our reader to stand in our character's shoes, whether protagonist or antagonist, we strive to build in them a level of intimacy with these characters. As their creators, it is our goal that our reader walk in each character's shoes and this means they have to imagine what it feels like to be immersed fully in the situations our characters face. In this way, the story becomes believable and compelling. This has to be sustained for every character throughout the whole book, for the book to be great. A lot to think about.
Thank you, Allegra. This was really helpful!!! As a therapist, I really want to get beneath the left brain language the client uses, to tap into the body's responses. So important.
This is excellent advice and results in enriched writing. The kind where we can show and not tell what is happening. Taking this line of thinking one step further, I believe the ability to mirror at the neurological level leads to empathy. When we write in a way that allows our reader to stand in our character's shoes, whether protagonist or antagonist, we strive to build in them a level of intimacy with these characters. As their creators, it is our goal that our reader walk in each character's shoes and this means they have to imagine what it feels like to be immersed fully in the situations our characters face. In this way, the story becomes believable and compelling. This has to be sustained for every character throughout the whole book, for the book to be great. A lot to think about.
That's what I think today, anyway.
Thank you, Allegra. This was really helpful!!! As a therapist, I really want to get beneath the left brain language the client uses, to tap into the body's responses. So important.