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How do realistic fiction authors hook and hold readers? Authors say that the most important part to a book is the beginning because they don’t want to get your attention fast. Realistic fiction authors say that in order to hook a reader the book has to use normal world situations, words, conflicts and events (Wroblewski). Many realistic fiction authors start their book with great tension to hook the reader from the beginning, and hold them to the end of the book. These authors tend to leave some information out to let the reader fill in the gaps with their own imagination (“Realistic Fiction”).

How do realistic fiction writers persuade their readers? Realistic fiction writers must provide fiction that is believable, experienceable, and “real to life” to persuade their readers. The reader can only experience what the writer experienced when he/she wrote the scene ("Realistic Fiction must be more”). Writers of this genre have to use vivid imagery and conflicts throughout the book in order to allow the reader to experience the reality of the book. To help persuade the reader, authors use literary elements to convince the readers (McCullough).

What is the relationship between realistic fiction and truth? Although realistic fiction books may not be true because it is fiction and written through the author’s mind, it contains to real life elements in the setting, characters, or plot. Books in this genre have characters, settings, and plots that are real enough for someone to relate to or understand. Even though the reader of the story may not live the same kind of life as the characters in the story, the reader will be able to relate to the feelings, actions, and motivations of the characters presented in the story (Sachar). The realistic fiction genre is written so that the reader can have an experience – a lifelike emotional and intellectual experience ("Realistic Fiction must be more”).

What truths are best communicated through the realistic fiction genre? In the realistic fiction genre some common themes are how to overcome an experience that happened to you, and how to forgive important people in your life (Nelson; Anderson). Realistic fiction books use events that happen in real life so the reader can relate to the characters more. Through this method the audience interprets many truths through this genre (Wroblewski).

How do authors of realistic fiction books develop such specific characters? Authors of books in the realistic fiction genre tend to develop deep conflicts with the characters. They do this by creating dramatic functions and having a specific character fulfill them. They make sure the character is memorable but still believable (Scholar). Characters in a well written realistic fiction novel have to be consistent throughout the book, not only memorable. Many authors get ideas and thoughts for characters through experiences with family members, friends, themselves and just people they have met throughout their life (“Realistic Fiction”).

How do authors start their research before beginning their realistic fiction book? How do authors start their research before beginning their realistic fiction book? Authors begin their research with first developing characters and organizing their ideas and thoughts. Authors develop 2-3 chapters at a time to help reduce the chances of getting “writers block” (McCullough). A lot of books in the realistic fiction genre are written about teenagers so authors tend to research about the language, conflicts, and events that they go thru to help make the relationship between the book and the reader better (Scholar).

How can authors of realistic fiction books develop such in depth conflicts? Realistic fiction authors develop in depth conflicts by taking bits and pieces of their experiences in life and exaggerating on them or telling a story that they heard happened to someone else. All main conflicts in this genre can happen, and many of them do happen just like in these books (“Realistic Fiction”). Authors always develop and start with exposition, where the characters are introduced and the conflict is identifies and then make a rising action (the action that intensifies towards the climax). They then go to the climax where the conflict is at its peak. After, there is a falling action (where the action gradually reduces in intensity) and ends with a resolution to the conflict. By using this technique many authors can hold the reader with these deep conflicts and keep them in reality (Morrissette).