What brings your work to life is the capacity to create an atmosphere in which you can lose yourself: the sort of atmosphere that makes your readers feel, at the end of the book, that they wish it wasn’t over; they wish they could keep reading on and on because they’ve fallen in love with the world you’ve created. What is it about books like that? What keeps you enthralled with the world the writer has created?
In this episode, I discuss the role of atmosphere and pacing in the creation of an engaging story. You can listen to it here:
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