By Annabel Candy

“Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.”
William Wordsworth

As a personal writer, your goal is to create a shared emotional experience with your audience.

Pathos describes your ability to evoke reader emotions but to do that you need to be aware of the wide range of emotions, decide which emotions to evoke, and practice evoking them in your readers.

Start with your emotion. What made you sad, angry, embarrassed, cringe, laugh, scared, proud, happy, jealous or worried?

Now choose a story people can relate to with universal experiences such as childhood pets, school, teachers or your first kiss.

For good storytelling every story must have a beginning, a middle and an end with a starting point, impact and end result.

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