Comments on: What Makes Readers Open Their Minds and Bodies to a Story? https://booksbywomen.org/what-makes-readers-open-their-minds-and-bodies-to-a-story-by-janet-benton/ Thu, 24 May 2018 14:39:59 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.3 By: Priscilla Estes https://booksbywomen.org/what-makes-readers-open-their-minds-and-bodies-to-a-story-by-janet-benton/#comment-49309 Thu, 24 May 2018 14:39:59 +0000 http://booksbywomen.org/?p=19825#comment-49309 “So why do some writers bother? I think it’s at least in part because the sense-driven manuscript that results can be a powerful advertisement for the writer’s view of the cosmos. For in its grip, readers become vulnerable, returning to an extent to the infant state of receiving through the senses, of being open without filters. It’s a grave thing for a writer to wield this power over human physiology, to gain access to tender places, in service of an advertisement.”

Wow! to the above and other insights.

]]> By: Priscilla Estes https://booksbywomen.org/what-makes-readers-open-their-minds-and-bodies-to-a-story-by-janet-benton/#comment-48796 Mon, 14 Aug 2017 15:39:16 +0000 http://booksbywomen.org/?p=19825#comment-48796 well said.

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