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The Milkman asks: In your next informative newsletter I was wondering if you could direct your audience to your ways of creating believable character emotions?
It's simple to create a character, but it's challenging to create a character that connects with the audience. The characters need to evoke emotions in your readers in order for them to be believable.
 Creating Believable Characters & Emotions
 Write what you know: Use your own personal experiences to aid you in building up emotions in your characters. Think about situations you have been in and how you felt during those times. Analyze the events, emotions, and outcome of the situations.
Let History Play a Part: Give your main characters credible backgrounds. Let your readers learn why your characters are molded the way they are. The cause of your characters behaviors and opinions eventually should be made known to the readers. Use their motivations, conflicts, successes, and failures to draw emotions. Readers can develop natural reactions by connecting with your characters because of their flaws and fears.
Write in your voice: There are many writers that try to emulate other authors, and that can cause problems. Spending time trying to write like other authors can cause your story to get lost and your readers to disconnect. Find your own style and use your own voice.
Research the Unknown: If you write about a topic you aren't familiar with, or have your characters feel things you haven't then do some research. For example, if you write a story based on a lawyer then know the terminology and definitions of the words you use in the story. It's a horrible mistake to use them if you aren't aware of what they mean. Readers can get turned off by someone using random words just for the sake of using them.
Show the Emotions: Showing the readers what you characters are going through will help your audience connect to your characters. Show your characters' facial expressions, actions, gestures, and movements.
There's nothing wrong with the following sentence, but it's very ordinary. There's nothing about it that would make me want to continue the story. I can't picture her crying just from those words.
 The movie made Kirsten cry.
I see everything the character is going through in the description below. I can relate to the emotions and situation. It stretches the moments giving me time to connect with the character.
While watching the movie, Kirsten felt a lump in her throat, making it difficult for her to swallow. She reached for a tissue to wipe the tears falling down her cheeks.
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Incurable Romantic  : Lexi, it was a nice surprise of sorts to see two songs from "my" generation in the final list. But I certainly have to agree with the other voters: they belong there. "When A Man Loves A Woman" and "Unchained Melody" are timeless. And the fact that they are on this list after being around almost 40 years speaks for itself. And I also have to agree with the response you listed here. That reader is correct - your song showdowns are the best. Please keep doing them
Starr Phenix  : Thank you for including "Beautiful Child", Lexi! I was so pleased to see so many of my favorite songs made the top ten in your Romantic Song Showdown, as well! Songs can be very inspiring to writers, and each one on your list is brimming with potential story. 
fleckgirl: Well, at least "Don't Wanna Miss a Thing" made the top 3. Great Survey! Thanks for all your hard work and time you put into it. I really enjoyed it.
SHERRI GIBSON  : I wasn't disappointed, Lexi. I love most genres of music. Like the others, this newsletter is great!
Vivian  : Thank you, Lexie, for highlighting my story "Never Leave Me." It's one of those stories that makes me want to expand and write a novel with this as one chapter or two.
monty31802: It isn't what you came for, its what you leave with. Great job Lexi.
AuntyNelly : I loved voting for the best romantic songs but was quite disappointed in the results as I think other great Love songs deserved to be amongst the top 10. We all apparently have different tastes!
spazmom : I'm so excited my way best favorite song and my husbands and mine 'song' made #1! Very fun to see the results.
Lexi : Thank you for commenting. It's always appreciated.
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