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Describing How It Feels
As writers, we always look to improve ourselves. We try to impart the emotion our characters are experiencing in words that capture our reader's imagination and inspire them to feel what we need them to feel. Last month I wrote about caching story ideas for times when the inspiration well is dry. This can be applied to the emotional well, also. We all experience times of joy or sadness, dark days and moments of shining in the sun.
Obviously, when we're super excited about something, we're not going to tear out a piece of paper and scribble down what we're feeling. What I suggest is take some quiet time later on and free write some of the feelings you experienced. Try to use all the words that come to mind when recalling the moment. I suggest sort the free writes by basic emotion: happy, sad, angry. Then when you're in the middle of a story and you know what emotion your character is experiencing but the right words aren't coming, you can review your emotions cache and get in touch with those emotions.
I'm not suggesting you pull out a thesaurus and use every available synonym for your character's emotion, but it is a good tool to keep at hand. Sometimes we're looking for the perfect word to invoke a feeling and you might find it looking through the listing. Be sure it's a fairly common word in language and not some obscure reference that will stop the flow of reading and confuse. Just because it's pretty, doesn't mean it need to be in your story. So save those emotions and Write On!
This month's question: Do you create a bank for listing emotions and feelings?
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Last month's "Action/Adventure Newsletter (June 9, 2021)" question: Do you block out where your characters are positioned as you write?
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