Signs of Sleep
Wednesday, January 6th, 2010
What is your character like when they start to get tired? Write a scene where your character needs to stay awake for some reason, but they are feeling very tired. Try to convey it in such a way that, just as if you saw someone yawn, your reader would – hopefully – feel tired just reading the scene.
This is not to say bad or uninteresting writing, this is an exercise in evoking empathy in the reader. As I said, just as you can see someone yawn and yawn, see if you can make your reader sleepy because your character is sleepy.
