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Every author wants their readers to like the books they write. But do those books make their readers feel good?
However, in my experience as both an author and a publisher, only in a couple of cases have my authors or I taken the time to assess whether our books 'feel good' to read. The books we publish are informative, entertaining and helpful, but I wanted to know if they felt good to read.
Many movie reviews will announce, "That movie is the 'the feel-good' movie of the year!" What does 'feel good' actually mean and how do you produce it deliberately? Is 'feel good' just one of those intangible qualities that only some creative properties are lucky enough to have?
After publishing 200 books and reviewing countless others, I decided to revamp my existing fiction novel in a very interesting fashion. The resulting book told the exact same story, but the readers' reactions to it were dramatically different. Everyone called it a 'feel-good' book.
"How to Write the Feel-Good Book of the Year - advice for Fiction writers" tells what I learned about the English language during the exercise of completely re-writing my book. Rewriting the book showed me how, as writers, of course, we can deliberately control words to communicate a message, but this epiphany allows that message to 'feel good' from the beginning to the end.
Learn how easy it is to control your words and keep your book feeling really good - to both you and your readers.
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Foreword
of How to Write the Feel-Good Book of the Year
Of course, every author wants their readers to like their books. However, in my experience as both an author and a publisher, only in a couple of cases have my authors or I taken the time to assess whether our books 'feel good' to read. The books are informative, entertaining or helpful, but do they feel good?
Many movie reviews will announce, "That movie is the 'the feel-good' movie of the year!" What does 'feel good' actually mean and how do you produce it deliberately or is 'feel good' just one of those intangible qualities that only some properties are lucky enough to have?
In my experience, I wrote a book called "Angel On Board" and it is a novel about the afterlife written from a perspective of someone just entering it. The book had a great quality of being able to heal people who were grieving. The original intent of the book was to help alcoholics, but the actual way it played out in the world, it helped the ones who had experienced the death of someone close to them. Even though it was just a mere fictionnovel, it had some amazing qualities, one of which was that it helped people. Readers told me how good it felt to read, and I was always pleased when they said that, however, I was perplexed at how I accomplished that.
Angel On Board took 3 years to write and was written completely in secret. I wrote it with one and only one reader in mind, my (now-ex) husband. He was an alcoholic who used grief as an excuse to stay drunk. I figured his 'passed on loved ones' were just as offended as I was when he blamed them for his behavior, so I wrote a novel that spoke for them. I finished it in 1998 and it has been edited and revised a number of times.
In 2007, I decided to challenge myself. I had been studying with masters in the Human Potential movement and their emphasis on affirmations, affirmative prayer and positive languaging was the basis of their teaching. When novices write their first few affirmations, frequently they use the word 'NOT' and identify a situation they'd like to move away from instead of naming the situation they would like to move toward. A great deal of emphasis is is put on the elimination of the word 'NOT' from these personal declarations.
So, I wondered, if I pray that way, can I write that way?
Could I actually eliminate the word 'NOT' and all other negative words from a book and still tell the same story or would it only be half the story? So, I tried it on the first chapter of Angel On Board, just to see what happened. I let my husband read it without telling him what I had done. I asked him if he noticed anything differently and he shook his head, a little confused about what I was getting at. So, I told him what I had done and asked him to read it again to see if 'it read differently.' He assured me that it still read very well.
So, I decided to continue on to the rest of the 31 chapters in Angel On Board and take the NOT out. I did a global search of all the words 'NOT' 'Can't' 'Didn't' etc - and found that I had over 2000 occurrences of them in the book. It was only a 254 page book. That meant I had used the word NOT roughly ten times a page. I suddenly wondered how intrusive this new revision would end up. I ploughed ahead anyways. It only took me a few days to rewrite Angel On Board completely in the affirmative.
What I learned about the English language by doing this exercise and how my reader's reacted is what the rest of this book is about.
I claim that Angel On Board is the "Most Positive Book on the Planet" because all the negative words have been taken out. GreatAngelBooks.com
Now when people read Angel On Board, they tell me it is a 'feel good' book. They aren't really sure why that is, but I know and I want to share that epiphany with all authors so they can write 'feel good' books too.
