Novelr. A Newbie's Guide to Publishing. Simple Way to Create a Mood for Your Story. In today’s installation of Think Like a Writer, we’ll look at creating a certain mood for your story, novel, or picture book. Writers know that readers want a certain experience and part of that is creating emotion or feeling. In other words, we need to create a setting that has a certain mood. How to do that? Creating a mood is fairly simple, if you start with the basic idea of sensory details. But this time, you want to select details that support your mood. If you want a happy beach, you choose different details; soft wind ruffles your hair, sunglasses slide down the sweat on your nose, the smell of sunscreen brings back memories of that time on the beach in Jamaica, the mojita tastes perfectly minty, and the sea is a glassy swell. Writers notice sensory details. WordTrack Writing Competitions and Grants.
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