Ways to inspire empathy for your protagonist

Most of the time (we won’t say “always”), authors want their readers to care about their protagonists.

That is, as author Florence Osmund puts it, they would help the main character if she or he were a real person.

Osmund shares eight strategies to stir empathy for the protagonist in your readers in a guest post on The Creative Penn.

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