character emotions guide

describing your characters’ feelings how are your characters feeling? it’s important for your readers to know. i’ve written an earlier post about conveying a character’s thoughts, and another one about facial expressions, but it’s time to tackle emotions. for this blog post i’m going to regard ‘feelings,’ ’emotions,’ and ‘moods’ as being synonymous, even though neuroscientists draw distinctions between these terms. emotions are part of the human experience, and seem to result from how we’re hard-wired, what our individual background has been, and a recent external or internal stimulus. since we all have emotions in the real world, the characters in your fiction must have them too, to make them convincing. as a writer, it’s your job to convey these …

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