: Re: How can you show that a character is feeling amazing? It's easy to show hesitance, fear or angst, you can have a character smoking 5-10 cigarettes in a row, linger for way too long, act out,

@Samaraweera193

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If it fits with the rest of your writing, one way is music. You have to make it fairly pervasive to do it this way.

The Black Tide Rising books by John Ringo use this very effectively, you don't even have to hear the music, but two main characters often submerge themselves in music and the playlist/lyrics they mention or sing under their breath while going on about their business (of killing zombies) absolutely set the mood/scene.

Stephen King does this somewhat as well in his books (But does a better job with it in movies, Don't fear the Reaper in The Stand was absolutely perfect)

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