5 Way to Evoke Fear and Command Respect in Your Writings

5 Way to Evoke Fear and Command Respect in Your Writings

Do you wish that people would take your writings and ramblings more seriously? Do you want to evoke fear and command respect in the things you write about? I'm not talking about fear as though they would be too afraid to read it like some Stephen King novel! But fear as in respect. Well to help with that, here's 6 ways to evoke fear and command respect in your writings and authorings!

1. Use the Senses to Drag the Reader into Your Character's World.

If you know anything about the senses, you'll know that people can be enticed along into something by leaving morsel after morsel until finally they are in the danger zone where you can pounce on them! Not literally of course! But in a virtual, meta-physical sense. Use peoples own sense of curiosity and desire for juicy readings by tempting them with small things at first before giving them the big bone!

2. Use Visceral Reactions to Draw Readers into Your Characters Emotions.

Anything visceral is anything very vivid and clear. By using visceral reactions you'll draw the reader into your characters own emotions in a way that seems very real to them. As real to them as it is real to the character that whatever is happening to. It basically just means being very clear and descriptive about how the character is feeling on an emotional level.

3. Let Readers Identify with Your Characters Before Connecting Emotionally.

Before you try to get people to connect to your characters using visceral reactions, first try to find ways you can get the reader to identify and relate to your character. This can be done by talking about some of the personality traits that character has, his/her fashion sense or style etc or something. By doing this, your readers will feel much more drawn to those characters when something happens to them.

4. Use Active Voices and Actionable Words.

By using an active voice and actionable words you'll be able to show how your character reacts to the situations he/she comes across. Active words are basically words that have intent and reason and purpose behind them. And actionable words are words that mean they're about to do something or already are doing something. Like "I'm going to cut you in half with my sword!".

S. Use metaphors/similes and imagery.

No good story is without its metaphors, similes and imagery! In fact, the best novel books are very graphic and use a lot of metaphors, similes and imagery. And it's not hard to come up with them. So if possible, try to use these throughout your story to give people something else that makes the reading that much more fun to do!

Conclusion

It's not a very hard thing to write a novel. It can take some practice. But if you have a good story, it can almost write itself. But by knowing about these 5 Way to Evoke Fear and Command Respect in Your Writings, you'll likely go on to become a better, more interesting, more riveting and successful novelist and writer!