Write from the heart. We can use a similar emotional response within ourselves to evoke a reaction in our reader. If we don’t feel an emotion, we can’t arouse that sensation in our reader. Before you start writing, ask yourself, “What emotion do I want to evoke—compassion, anger, sadness, pain, fear, love, joy?” What arouses your passions? What do you care about? What do you want to change? How can you help others? In our writing, we need to have something to share that will benefit others, change their lives. Help the readers to get in tune with themselves through the experiences of your characters, particularly your main character.
Make your readers laugh. Make your readers cry. Instead of causing your characters to cry, create tears in your reader’s eyes. Show the humanness of your characters. We can help others through our shortcomings, our mistakes, and our failures. We can share the lessons we’ve learned through our characters. Our characters can say, “I don’t walk in your shoes, but this is what I’ve been through, and this is how I coped.” Our characters must appear real to our audience in order to help the readers cope with their daily lives and grow as Christians.