… are more emotional and easier to read and connect with people
Why human interest? | |
 | What’s the impact of human-interest stories? Show readers one person — not 1,001 People in one study gave more than twice as much to a single child than to 11 million starving children in Ethiopia. |
 | People like human-interest stories because they … … are easier to read, according to the Flesch Test Humans? Interesting. Personal words and personal sentences measurably increase human interest. |
 | Quotes on why write human-interest stories What writers and others say “Show them the forest; introduce them to a tree.” — William Blundell, author of The Art and Craft of Feature Writing |
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 | Resources on why write human-interest stories Websites, books & tools Learn how to sell human interest to reviewers and approvers with this research on the bottom-line business impact of human-interest stories. |