A Writer's Guide to Emotion

by Michael Allen

If you want to sell more novels, or short stories, you need to make your reader feel emotion. And here’s a book that tells you how to do it.

Emotion is what holds the reader to the page (‘I couldn’t put the book down’), and it is the emotion conveyed by the final few pages that prompts a reader to go looking for anything else that you’ve written. Such readers will also recommend a book to their friends.

Beginning with a survey of what science can tell us about emotion, Michael Allen goes on to provide a working theory of emotion which writers can use to improve their skills. He then provides a working catalogue of emotions which will prove invaluable to any writer. In short, this is a straightforward and practical guide to making your fiction more effective and popular.

Genres: Writing

65 pages, Kindle Edition

First published July 30, 2013

About the author

Michael Allen is best known for writing popular mainstream fiction, and he's been doing it successfully for more years than he cares to remember. His first novel was published in 1963.

Extract from bio on Amazon UK