Bring up that weird thing that you think is so odd no one will ever identify
with – that people always identify with.
The weirdest one that ever got mewas when an author wrote about the fascination with high places and
standing on the edge and a compulsion to jump just to see what it would feel
like. That’s really the point at which I understood what strange critters people
are.
People have lots of things like that embedded deep inside them. Universal
secrets, if you will. Those always resonate – and quite powerfully, too, since
they’re secrets.
That’s how you create reader identification: by creating very human
characters. Human the way we actually are, not how we’d like to believe we
are.
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