Reading good books deepens your horizons.

I don’t know much about travel writing. I’ve never tried it myself other than blogging aspects of my trip to L.A. last year. I do, however, have a very talented friend, Sharon Hurley Hall, who writes about travel. You can find her at http://www.sharonhh.com/

Of course, I’m always interested in learning about any kind of writing so if you have any specific questions I will try to answer them.
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a little bit of topic, still has to do with writing, just wondering if you know much about travel writing at all?

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When writing a hooking sentence we’re incorporating elements of persuasive writing. Knowing your target audience is a large part of fiction writing as well, particularly genre writing. There are elements you could use effectively in romance genre novels that wouldn’t cultivate too convincingly in a thriller for example. Your audience expects certain things and a writer needs to know their reader to give the reader what he wants.

I know I have a very firm ‘result’ in mind for my current novel. “Mirror a sense of courage and self-confidence within my reader.” To that end, my characters have fear and self-doubt aspects that play a large role in the book and obviously discover their inner courage and retake their self-confidence. Effectively creating the mirror for my readers with a strong sense of empathy.

So you see, in all writing we use some degree of persuasiveness and especially the 3 Rs.

Thank you again for reading and please, don’t hesitate to drop me a comment or email if there is a topic in particular you’d like me to cover.
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