Questions tagged [emotions]
This tag should be used in question related to portray a given emotion in a writing, or dealing with certain feeling during the act of writing.
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How to write scenes where high emotions are described by a narrator in the first person who isn’t actually experiencing the emotions?
I am a young writer who has been working for almost two years now on my first draft for a modern fantasy/ fiction novel. As this novel has several emotional high points (and overall tries to bring to ...
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How should I express my OC's emotions in this case?
I want my OC to experience survivors' guilt but somehow also fall in love... any advice how to write this?
Brief context on the OC:
She is in the present a 17 year old girl. She grew up being ...
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How do I describe basic human emotions for someone who has never felt them?
I am writing a fish out of water/fallen angel fanfiction (I'm cringing writing this question).
The MMC is put into a mortla body and sent to earth as a punishment for meddling and interfering in human ...
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How do I show a character struggling to process important information?
So I am writing a story, and I am at the part where I am connecting the dots for my characters. It is all from one character's perspective (Aranyani). For some background, she has been having ...
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How to prevent emotional exhaustion when writing scenes that would be exhausting in real life?
When writing scenes that are emotionally difficult or complex for the characters involved, I often find that it feels like reliving similar experiences I have had in real life. I find myself feeling ...
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How does one describe or hint at that your POV character has been crying?
In my story there's a scene in which a rather noble and "prissy"(?) character finds himself in a prison cell. This scene starts when he's been there for a little bit and and has been crying. ...
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What is an instance and why is everything brought up for it? [closed]
When someone says: "For instance", what is that instance in question?
Why is that everything comes down to it?
How would you visualize an instance?
What feelings does it bring up for you?
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How do I avoid getting depressed after receiving edits?
I just wrote my first op-ed for my college newspaper, and I've always considered myself a pretty okay writer; but after receiving my first round of edits I just feel so low, like I've disappointed the ...
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Self-contained fictional narrative consisting of only about 150 words, and without conflict between the characters [closed]
The title describes the goal. Below is one attempt to achieve the goal.
My question: Can I say that there's no conflict between the characters, or is that just my opinion?
There's an obvious ...
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Tips for writing about a small funeral
Not looking for a complete guide here, but rather some supplementary tips. I'm writing a scene in a story where one of the two main characters is dead, and it's his funeral. This story is in a small ...
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How do I make it CLEAR there is no sexual tension?
Both for the book I’m writing right now, but also for the future, how do I make it COMPLETELY clear that there is not, nor will there ever be sexual tension?
The relationship I’m focusing on currently ...
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How can I make my character show his feelings more without being excessive?
I started writing a story sometime ago, and I wrote all I could think of. I did a good job as per my imagination served me. I couldn't complete the story because I planned to go the magic and fantasy ...
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How to write an insulting experience for my protagonist?
My protagonist finds out that his friends have completely forgotten him. I want to write an insulting scene for my protagonist and want the readers to connect with him fully. Need some tips on how to ...
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Writing a character with amnesia
I'm working on a webcomic in which the main character has amnesia from head trauma. She was an experiment and when escaping she hit her head. She has one sentence of dialogue to the other main ...
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How could I write a tragic, depressed character without making them completely unbearable/hateable?
In the middle of my epic, the deutertagonist's love interest gets brutally killed off and she is forced to watch. For the third quarter of the story, she is trying to deal with the pain and trauma.
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