Creating a relationship between readers and characters is vital to hold their interest. Being descriptive and capable of injecting realism is where the author actually gives each character their own individual personality. Thus the reader then is more capable of relating to each incident which occurs, as well as actually "feels" the emotions which are adequately injected throughout.

Wordplay is an author's asset, without it the plot and the characters fall flat and do not succeed in grasping the reader's enthusiasm. For instance: the book may be written about mature love, and with this in mind we have a vivid mind picture of a grandmotherly type woman and a garden loving, golf playing male. Now if we do not inject any character at all or descriptive word play, the characters fade into the background and thus the storyline is lost.

Yet when we depict let's say, Maryanne, cheerfully sitting in the recliner, knitting pink babies booties. While Bert happily whittles as he sits in the opposite recliner, whistling a merry tune we have the onset of a happy story. Thus we relate to them and perchance even add a little of our own mind imagery, such as rosy cheeks or thinning gray hair. Perhaps we also wish for a little more imagery, such as the loving looks they keep giving each other as they talk.

See here we are creating a relationship between the reader and the characters. We then wish to know how old they are. How did they meet and so forth, as well as how this mature relationship actually got off the ground? We then feel we know them and thus have established a relationship of sorts.

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