Writer's Nook - Writings and Reflections

Chapter 6 - Emotions

The shipwrecked story ties in to Immediate Fiction as a craft exercise.
I just completed reading chapter 6 - so I will need to write up my notes and work on my story. I suppose I should type out my story and see where it goes and that way I can set it up to keep working on it.

For chapter 4 and 5 I should include a few links to stories I have been working on during those chapters.
One is my Dark Dreamscapes Prose story that won 1st place. "The Mysteries Of A Long Lost Key" 
I also did a piece for the 7YS - based on the quote about dreams "My Dreams Will Come In Time" 

Chapter 6 focused on Emotions and how our vulnerability makes us identify with characters. How writing what we know stems from our emotional experience of what we can imagine.
I created a story with this in mind

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Shipwrecked  (18+) Creating a character dealing with being shipwrecked. Day 6 of the 7 Yard Stretch #2011134 by 💙 Carly

Notes from Chapter 6

Emotions - define us
         -what we feel, what we have feelings about; who we love, how we love, who we hate, how we hate and all other things in between.

-they are more than physical descriptions
-you THINK = the mind leads the body
-Language is where being dwells
-Thoughts = most revealing expression of who we are

In fiction - we slow it down and take it step by step to capture the feel (the truth) of the experience

STORY = about to get into character's mind
         can portray the mind exactly as it happens, word for word, moment by moment in the character.

It is the 'secret life' of the character = the mind
         -reveals character as we seldom speak our minds
         -how it relates to what he says and does is revealing.

-we can go to basic level, but also tl a deep deeper level - a level that even the character is not willing to admit to the world.
-Internal Conflict of the character
         -how he feels about himself and how he manages himself.
         -know character emotionally - identify

FEAR - Emotional thoughts listed (p. 85 - 87) - a taste
-doesn't come easy in first draft
         -work to deepen the connection with revision and future drafts

*ASK = what are my characters worries, fears and hopes?
If your character isn't worried and afraid, then you don't have DRAMATIC CONFLICT

Complicated characters = embody many different, often opposing qualities all the time.
-often feel more than one emotion at a time, especially in a crisis

*IMPORTANT to get behind why the character feels there emotions - anger and fear are often surface emotions. We want to know the WHY behind them.

*We identify with vulnerability.

Write what you can imagine.
Write what you can figure out = most human experience
         -full set of emotions and potential for good and evil

Same emotions - are satisfied in different ways.




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