Classic Emotion In Writing
Learning How To Add Emotions to Your Stories
EMOTION IN WRITING
Understanding this very complex element of fiction writing is difficult, at best. It seems on the surface to be so easy. Any writer can give a character emotions, right? Well, on a light surface level, maybe, but just below that surface is one of the most powerful tools a writer has in his or her craft toolbox.
Emotion makes characters come alive and readers care about the character and thus stay in your story.
Emotion gives characters a past.
There are many ways to add emotion into stories. Some work, some do not. And not all emotion is making a reader cry. Humor is a form of emotion. So is something simple (when done correctly) as hunger.
Emotion adds depth to a character, which I suppose this workshop could be called Character Depth. A character, without emotion, has no depth.
This workshop is designed to help you see when emotion is present in a story and learn how to put it in.
Your Instructor
Considered one of the most prolific writers working in modern fiction, New York Times and USA Today bestselling writer, Dean Wesley Smith published over two hundred novels and over seven hundred books, and hundreds and hundreds of short stories. He has over thirty million copies of his books in print.
At the moment he produces novels in four major series, including the time travel Thunder Mountain novels set in the old west, the galaxy-spanning Seeders Universe series, the cold case mystery series, Cold Poker Gang series, and the superhero series staring Poker Boy.
For more information about Dean’s books and ongoing projects, please visit his website at www.deanwesleysmith.com
Course Curriculum
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StartEmotion, Week #1, Session #1... What is emotion? (5:19)
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StartEmotion, Week #1, Session #2... So much involved... (7:33)
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StartEmotion, Week #1, Session #3... Three very basic ways to put emotion in... (5:48)
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StartEmotion, Week #1, Session #4... A rule of thumb (2:40)
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StartEmotion, Week #1, Session #5... The emotion of Genre (6:15)
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StartEmotion Assignment #1 (7:18)
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StartEmotion, Response Week #1 Assignment (5:43)
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StartEmotion, Week #2, Session #1... Build emotion in structure (3:36)
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StartEmotion, Week #2, Session #2... Start with depth (5:18)
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StartEmotion, Week #2, Session #3... Chapter Two...More depth and setting up for emotion. (5:11)
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StartEmotion, Week #2, Session #4... Next chapter (5:41)
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StartEmotion, Week #2, Session #5... Final chapters, comes clear what is happening, payoff of emotion at the end. (10:16)
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StartEmotion, Week #2, Assignment #2 (2:31)