You should be ashamed!

Or: how to build an emotional connection with your readers

This is a post explaining how to write so your readers get emotionally involved. Aka: how to build a felt connection with them. Throw a grappling hook into their hearts. Rebaptize them with your words. Fill them with the kind of laughter Anne Lamott calls “carbonated holiness.”

This is an important skill to have if you want a commercial book deal in just…