I start a new writing class today with Pasic:  Empowering Character Emotions, taught by Margie Lawson.  I already have my editing partner, and am excited about what this class may teach me.

I try to write deep POV: sometimes it works, other times it doesn't.  What I think might be an emotional protagonist, sometimes isn't.  I am hoping this class will teach me how to get into better touch with my characters.  Emotion ensnares readers; an emotionally distant character will not hold the reader's interest.  I want my characters--and in turn, my book--to be successful.  That means engaging the reader, making them care about what happens.  If they aren't engaged, they won't finish the book.

I am also hoping this class will give me a clue why some of my characters seem so emotionally distant.  When I step back from them, I see the distance, and am at a loss for how to fix it most of the time.  With a lot of work, and a bit of luck, I stumble upon a solution, but it takes soooo much time!  Perhaps if I understand the why, I can better understand the way to not let it happen in the first place.  That is the theory, anyway.

Maybe the class will tell me why I find it so much easier to write the villain, why I can write the antagonists soooo much better than the protagonists.  I am cautiously optomistic on this score.