We all get angry sometimes, but what makes us angry — and what we do about it — varies widely from person to person. The same…
Fiction writers face a tricky balance with emotional scenes. We want the reader to feel the story as deeply as the characters do. However, it’s easy…
Writing character emotions requires a delicate balance of showing and telling, action and exposition. Excessive emotional description will make a character seem too wrapped up in…
Emotion can make or break a story. Getting readers to feel each scene right alongside your characters transforms your words into real people. Readers will bond…
Last week I talked about how sometimes simple-sounding feedback from beta readers or editors may indicate a bigger issue with your manuscript, and I shared my…
Writing emotional scenes is often trying for authors because they’re tricky to get right. You want what happens to your characters to matter. But you also…