Literary details that should not be missing in a good book

If we start to carefully analyze a book that we liked and we found it really good, some of the conclusions that stand out at the end of reading are these:

• I was hooked from the beginning.
• I have read it in a very short time.
• I identify myself with this character, or with that other.
• The setting created by the author is really good and he has managed to "get me" into the story and each event he described.
• I wouldn't mind reading it again in a while.

If we keep analyzing, each of these conclusions is highly related to that literary details that should not be missing in a good book and that they make of them little treasures to care for and preserve. If you are writing a book, perhaps this article will help you prioritize certain points in it so that it reaches more people and likes it more.

Make your book like a lot

• The first detail that you must take into account when writing your book is to look for a Central theme that the more people like the better. For example, there are several topics that are very popular and appeal to the vast majority of people. One of them is love, without a doubt. If your book has a love story involved (it doesn't have to be the main theme of the story), people who read it will want to know how the characters live that love story and how it ends. Other great recurring themes are: existential fulfillment, reflection on oneself mixed with different feelings such as loneliness, hatred, etc.

• Another fundamental detail that your book should have is a certain characteristic in the main character or in the secondary ones that makes the reader feel certain empathy for him. And although each person is a world and each one of us likes certain characters better, he must have something that moves, even if a priori he seems a hateful and detestable character.

• Another point that readers like a lot is the presence of dialogues, but fluid, coherent and real dialogues. Creating dialogue can be the most difficult for beginning writers because they tend to be superficial and sometimes absurd. If you do not want this to happen to you with your book, we recommend that you read them aloud with the help of another person to do the other voice. This way you will see if your dialogues are "normal" and do not seem too "forced".

• Create environments that hook the reader; overly loaded and lengthy descriptions are obviated; imagine scenes and environments in which you would like to be and that wrap well what is happening in the book at that moment. A good setting will hook the reader even more and will make him live with more emotion and "reality" that part of the book.

Last but not least, we recommend you edit a good cover or cover for your book. If you want to know more about it, we encourage you to read this article in which we tell you in more detail.