How to Make Me Care Part 1: Big Series with Immersive Worlds
I’ve been wondering lately about what, exactly, it is that makes a reader care. About the characters. About the world. About the stakes presented in the story. Because there are a lot of stories that will present huge stakes and have decent prose and do a lot of stuff right, but they still don’t manage to make me care at all. On the author end I may care a lot about a certain character, but that doesn’t mean it’s easy to write about them in a way that makes the reader care. And of course every reader is different. Maybe this is just another way of procrastinating on my actual writing, but I kind of want to explore some of the things that make me, personally, care when I’m reading a book. Things that pull me in and make me invested. Like I said above, every reader is different, but I’ll start with my own personal preferences and then see if I can take a step back and generalize them somehow. I’ll begin my exploration by choosing a few of the books or series that I enjoye...