: Re: What are ways to describe feelings of fear? What are some ways to write feelings of fear, such as: losing a loved one, almost dying, getting lost, getting yelled at by your overprotective mother

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Unfortunately, you shouldn't really be diving into these kinds of emotions unless you have experienced it yourself to some degree. They just don't come out well and feel empty or lacking if you can't describe it well.

Put yourself in their shoes, imagine the situation and you going through it. How would you feel? Don't just say upset... but think about emotion as a whole body experience...

watch some really deep drama about love and loss. I know you are a huge fan of anime. There are TONS of deep dark anime that love to yank at your emotions when the MC's gf ends up dying in the end.

Situations like this are mostly raw emotion. That's a bit hard to get right. Think about someone you deeply care about. A pet, your parents, any lovers. Friends. Imagine that, this person is in that situation. How would you react?

In a way, I envy you having to ask about the emotions of life and death as it appears you have not experienced this at a deep level yet.

My only advice I can really provide to help is find quality movies/anime/books that have super sad endings involving of character death. Watch how they are portrayed in those moments. Study their faces, their words, their actions.

Feel the story and the emotions. There is no one way to describe how someone's emotions would be in these situations. It depends on the character, their traits, how they handle situations of life and death (a lot of this should already be done in the character bios). To get a good feel though, do some investigation into media that has "the feels". It's probably the only way for you to experience it first hand to be able to describe it without actually having it be done first hand.

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