This year’s Winterfest featured C.S. Lakin’s special three-hour workshop on “Emotional Mastery for Fiction Writers.” Lakin proposed that the emotional landscape of fiction is the greatest challenge for writers, yet it is perhaps the most important element because readers want to care. And they can’t care about characters unless writers effectively, evocatively, and masterfully show emotion in their characters. Lakin gave techniques to help spark emotional response in your readers.