A friend of mine told me about The Emotion Thesaurus a few weeks ago. I bought it immediately. My favorite parts are the physical descriptions of emotional responses. I haven’t used it yet, but I’ve been clicking through it (I bought the ebook) and I know it’s going to come in handy. Sarah Winter: WritingContinue reading “Get inside characters”
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Plot lines
Like it or not, there appears to be something to the idea of “formulaic” writing. And it appears to apply in ways Kurt Vonnegut understood pretty well without the sort of statistical analysis discussed here. The idea focuses less on the activities and events of plot, and instead on the emotions of a story. CanContinue reading “Plot lines”
