You can really play off of the readers' emotions, specifically if you're going for raw emotions such as grief and tragedy.
Still, Meg harbors doubts about her own intellectual abilities, and her exacting expectations rub off on the reader.
It sounds like the stuff of dry, dusty scholarship, but Ms Pringle reanimates her subject with vivid portraits of the archaeologists, researchers and historians who have made the study of mummies their life's work, and whose enthusiasm for the subject quickly rubs off on the reader.
Your excitement and interest will make it easier for you to keep the project going and keep it to a high standard, and hopefully it will rub off on the reader as well.
"The real question is, does it turn off the reader?" Mr. Walker asked.
To: Scott Rudin From: M.D. Hi! To: Scott Rudin From: M.D. Good call on taking your name off "The Reader".
Balance is essential: don't be too wacky, or it will turn off the reader.
One more round of revisions, with sharper phrasing, clearer narrative and more thorough analysis, and Pfaelzer could have sealed off the reader's route of emotional escape.
The challenge in satirizing a technical manual, as this example semi-suicidally undertakes to do, is to capture the inherently joyless tedium of conveying specialized instructional information, while tipping off the reader that the cod liver oil is laced with laughing gas.
She staves off the reader's frustration by filling gaps with educated guesses, mining Fitzgerald's juvenilia, decoding marginalia and, as Fitzgerald's quirks hardened into crabbiness, summarising the caustic notes the grande dame prepared on other writers".Those who did not like Penelope Fitzgerald found her reserved, perverse, stubborn, mischievous, wilful and sharp- tongued.
