When I started writing, there was one piece of advice I’d hear over and over again: Show, Don’t Tell. Eighteen books and twenty years later, there’s a different tip I want to share with you: Focus on Feelings. Not just the feelings between your characters, but the far more exciting thrill of making your readers feel something. Each time I start working on a new idea, the first thing I focus on is the different emotions I want capture. I find sketching out what I’m trying to elicit in each chapter, before getting into the nitty-gritty of sentences and descriptions, works a lot better. Because
