Okay, so remember Darla from the plane yesterday? (Like I’m ever going to forget her!) ~ We’re going to talk about writing character emotions today, and the three main layers that authors use when writing them. Feel free to refer back to Dear Darla during the examples. (Or maybe she’s already firmly embedded in your mind) 1. The first layer of writing emotions is simply that surface emotion – the name of the emotion. Darla turned me and said: “I’m a little nervous.” She stated her emotion. Examples of this first layer: ~ She stood at the entrance to the gateway and fear gripped her. ~ She could not watch the children in the playground without feeling sorrow. ~ Never had she know such happiness as when she saw […]
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Dear Darla…
So – I just gotta tell you about Darla. I do a lot of travelling and not long ago, I was sitting in the O’Hare Airport when a woman walked into the gate area. She was in her early twenties, and carried a backpack, which she held with a whitened fist. She sat down and began to fidget in her seat, checking her watch, looking at the gate, pawing through her bag. She pulled out a book, and clutched it to her chest a moment before opening it, and pulling out a highlighter. The books said, in large black ominous letters – How to get over your fear of flying. Periodically, she wiped her hands on her jeans, and blew out a long breath, as if she’d been holding it. […]
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Hey all!! I’m back from San Fran (had fun wow-ing my boys with my skydiving video – my 13 year old said, “Oh, I’m so jealous!” My 17 year old said, “Never in a million years!” and my 11 year old said, (and this is my favorite) “You are SO cool, mom!!” *grin* Anyway, I’m off tomorrow to Philadelphia for the Greater Philadelphia Christian Writer’s Conference — SOOO, more fun pix of San Fran will have to wait. And I’ll bet you’re all thinking — HELLO, are we EVER going to talk about writing again? YES, YES!! Suspense is next on the agenda, and anticipation is the hallmark of Suspense….so….I’ll be blogging as soon as i get back next week. In the meantime, to get us started — WHAT ARE […]
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My husband and I were talking recently about addictions. Why, if we have the resurrection spirit of the Living God inside us do we have such a hard time overcoming addictions? It’s like, we look the addiction in the face and it seems so huge that we can’t slay it. It’s bigger than us, stronger than us, outthinks us and sabotages us. It crushes us into submission. An addiction is our own personal a villain. Think about it – when you consider taking it on, do you stumble, do you wonder how you’ll accomplish it? Does it feel undefeatable? Does it feel personal – especially when you look at other people who aren’t attacked by that addiction? But I’m not here today to talk about addictions. Or even the fact […]
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