Good books and blogs are generally full of melodrama manipulation, pulling the reader from one moving situation to another.

From page one:

Pull the reader into the plot straight away in your first paragraph: 

One of the best ways to do this is, is with dialog. For example: 

People shouting, screaming, arguing, crying, declaring a problem, or asking a dire question, etc. And the other person: replying with passion. This dialog naturally sets up the basic circumstances of the plot. 

The other thing to bring in action, is to describe action packed scenes. Possible examples:  

• Describe people fighting on board a sailing boat, completely oblivious to a storm brooding and wind stirring and whipping up the sails. This suggests trouble ahead and why were they fighting in the first place? 
• Describe a fast moving car scene and what happened when a man loses control of his car and it careers through the bridge rails and flies through space, before plunging into the river far below. This suggests a possible death and how to would affect the plot. Perhaps an inheritance changes people’s lives? 

Leading facts:

Moving from one chapter to another chapter, build up situations that require people to think where this will lead them. How will the characters handle the circumstances? 

Then lay a suggestion at the end of each chapter. Thus getting the reader to turn the page to see what will happen in the next chapter? 

The END:

1. In some soft-going romance books people expect their hero and heroine to fall madly in love ever after. 
2. But an adventure book generally has a twist in the story and the end not what anyone would expect, but ends happy ever after anyway. 

People expect happy endings. And if it doesn’t end happily, their disappointment will lose trust in that author. “I won’t buy or read any more books by that author again, that’s for sure!” 

How does this apply to blogging?

1. If you think action, you will most probably write action. 
2. And thinking action requires a passionate heart and personality. 
3. To write action you have to imagine how things actually happened, from one physical action to the next. Sometimes with this, (you can laugh if you like), I pull faces to get the expressions right!  

I call that living in the moment, so you can write it authentically. 

How do you write action?

Manipulate people’s senses and senses by: 

1. Using short words and sentences to create action. Long words require looking up in the dictionary! Long sentences suggest peace and harmony. And if too drawn out, boring! 
2. Leave out unnecessary words or sentences. When the facts come one after the other in quick succession, the eyes and the mind has to assess each fact or action quickly. Thus you build up a series of actions that pulls people into what’s happening. It also builds the desire to know how it is all going to end, in the end. Thus making people continue reading all the way down to the bottom of the blog. 
3. Use of action packed doing words create action. Use words like running, rushing water, waving of arms, gripping hands, etc, those things that people or animals do. 
4. Describe feelings. That includes situations that people have to handle and what they saw. And then, how they reacted to those circumstances. Emotions have a great impact on the senses and soul of the reader.