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: Characters feelings; Using them for pacing/tension I'm writing a novel and in the opening chapter, one of the main characters finds herself traveling by foot through a very severe sandstorm. I
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: Show vs Tell: Complex and nuanced emotions The one writing guideline that has altered my writing the most is the Show vs Tell guideline. I was probably far into the "tell" territory
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: Are there any good alternatives to "a fire inside" of someone? I'm trying to express the idea of a character undergoing a realisation, thus feeling an idea along the lines of a "fire being
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: How to write a character who is falling in love, but doesn't know? So I have been trying to write a character that is oblivious to romantic advances because they mistake them for normal, platonic
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: How to "show" a "Yes" head confirmation How can I "show" that my character is saying "yes" as a respond from a question? The only thing that comes to my mind is Mike moves his head,
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: How do you show an introverted, socially awkward character is kind? I have a character for whom three of their most prominent traits are meant to be their kindness/high degree of empathy, social
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: How to NOT get sad when writing I am writing historical fiction novel. Some parts are very sad. I am identifying with my characters to develop and write about them. How to move past the sadness
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: How to write a character with a bipolar personality? I need some help. I am already deep into 2 stories that involve composers and in both stories there is a character based on Ludwig van
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: How to develop my reluctant character? I am writing a novel which is about a naive, good-for-nothing boy who is also suffering from low self-esteem. One day, due to some events, he gets some
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: How to get across pain more effectively in my story? I have been writing a story about a young pianist living with the great composers. After the composers have a meeting, it is decided that
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: Outlining the climax made me lose interest in writing the actual story I am a discovery writer. I wrote more than 50% of my first novel's first draft. I got really confuse about some aspects
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: Emotional arc types Assuming this vocabulary: the narrative arc is the arc which makes the plot go forward, while the emotional arc is the arc which engage the character on a deeper, not always
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: What is one way to write about feeling someone's sadness? For example: I sensed as if he became sad from the way he spoke after telling him that I would go with her.
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: Developing a dialogue that unexpectedly leads to strong feelings between two strangers A short story I'm writing involves a stage in which the male protagonist talks to a stranger with the intent
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: How important are the author's mood and feelings for writing a story? How important are the author's mood and emotions while writing a story or describing a scene? For example, while writing
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: How can I portray a resentful character without making them overtly angry? I am writing a fiction story about a elite unit, SFD (Strike Force Delta), during the Third World War. The war is
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: How can I write a panicked scene without it feeling like it was written in haste? I normally try to place myself in my character's shoes and I think to myself, "how would I react if I were
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: How can I showcase the dynamic relationship between two personalities? The protagonist, as a child, was born into an eldritch cult which worships the being known as shub-niggurath. His parents
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: How to represent jealousy in a cute way? The main character (which is a girl) of the first romance I'm writing would feel jealous sometimes of her love interest, but I want it to be a cute
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: How to write a vulnerable moment without it seeming cliche or mushy? So, I have a kinda loudmouthed character who's always the first to fight and first to go on the offensive (This is a fantasy,
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: How to detach yourself from a character you're going to kill? So, in a WW2-ish story featuring a co-ed military, I have a female soldier who is very kind and caring. I'm setting her up to
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: Lovesick Character Distracting Readers How do you show that a character is suffering from lovesickness in a story plot, but not distract the reader from the actual main plot of the story?
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: Where is the line between a tough love character and a pure asshole? So, I have a character who was going to just be an unlikable character at the start of the novel, but now I want to
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: Saying something reluctantly dialogue tag or 'said' synonym? For example, I'm rewriting a sex scene and my current dialogue and subsequent dialogue tag is: Almost reluctantly, he said, “Okay,
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: How to show that a character cares for another, but is also clumsy? This is about a father who returns after a particularly long journey. Typically, he's not available very often anyway, but
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: How to write character's emotional reactions in a screenplay? Question : When writing my screenplay, I frequently find the urge to describe a character's emotion. However, I have read somewhere
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: How do I keep an essay about "feeling flat" from feeling flat? I was invited to participate in an anthology of essays about a tv show. I chose an episode based on the Wikipedia summary
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: Can disgust be a key component of horror? The feeling of disgust is often used in horrors, exspecially visual medias (where is arguably easier to shock the audience with great effect). Often
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: Using rhythm to evoke emotion When writing there is one area I am not great at leveraging. That's rhythm or meter. I don't hear meter naturally like some people do so I have to really break
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: What is the best way to simulate grief? I am new to the art of writing and have been wondering if there is a way to introduce the grief of loss(character dies) in my story, inturn while
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: What are the best techniques to show a character panicking as it is seen by the POV character? So the problem I am having is that the protagonist of the novel I am writing is having a confrontation
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: Making him into a bully (how to show mild violence) Joe is the worst. Nobody likes him, not even the so-called friends he teams up with at school, filling other students with terror. He's
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: How to make a grieving father less vengeful and see reason? I have a character who, maddened by the suicide of his son, chooses to destroy the company the young man worked for, holding them
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: How to write characters who hate when you don't understand it? I hadn't thought about it before, but today I came across a writing prompt that involved hate. My mind kept running up against
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: Describing paralyzing fear in the first person I would appreciate some suggestions that would help me describe intense terrifying fear that my main character feels when the airplane he is on
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: How to show the same emotion multiple times? I think everyone has heard the "show don't tell" rule. My question is how can I show same emotion multiple times without the description being the
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: Screenwriting Techniques: Emotional Projection NECESSARY INFORMATION Recently I saw someone on the internet say that Revenge Of The Sith was so powerful because of an effect called "Emotional Projection."
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: Short sentences vs. long sentences in fiction I understand that short sentences are a way to build tension. Do long sentences have a defined emotional impact in fiction writing?
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: Writing a crying scene Writing a crying scene makes me accidentally do repetitions like "the tears which were on her face broke down into a slithering stream..." and then putting the word
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: How can you write when you're upset? I mean exactly this. Writing needs focus, to some extent. Even if you may fall into a state were words flow naturally on the keyboard almost without effort,
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