Evoking Emotion

When you watch a movie or a TV show, and the actor or actress can evoke emotion from you, that's some good acting right there. Well, the same thing is true for writing. When I was rereading THE VASE last night, in my last ditch effort to prepare it for my editor, I reached a part where the professor was remembering the day his wife died. It's a flashback, and it recounted the events of that particular day. It brought tears to my eyes. Now I must have read this thing near fifty times already, and every time I find my eyes welling up when I read that part and one other part when one of the characters gets killed. If your writing can do that, then that's some good writing right there.