Readers Love Survivors
Mood:  mischievious

When our world grows too busy and demanding we need an escape from reality. We need to go to a place where dreams and fantasies can become true. This place is a book of fiction.

I want to read a stronger than reality piece with which I can identify. I want to see me in a character, but a stronger me. Someone who stands up and fights back. The character could be male, female, adult or child. It could be a character of fantasy, or an alien being. That isn’t important. What is important is she doesn’t sit quietly by and let things happen to her. She does what needs doing to take action against adversity.

Readers like hero characters who can triumph over whatever the world throws at them. Whether natural disasters, tragedy or bad guys, the hero must overcome them and survive.

Without the character overcoming an obstacle, what’s the point of reading the story? Readers see depression and failure in real life - so give them success. The character must work to overcome adversity and survive. The reader will place himself in the main character’s shoes and experience the same emotions. He wants to feel that life does have a purpose and there is always hope.

Readers want to recognize themselves, or the person they want to be, in the character’s personal qualities. For me, that means I don’t want a timid hero to remain timid. By the end of the story she has discovered her courage by using her brain and gaining skills. The ending shows her kicking butt and taking names. She is a survivor. She is me.

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