Thought my readers on Grandma Says might find this one helpful!
How many of you writers out there have heard the expression “Show…don’t tell”…most of you, I bet. We writers often fall into the “She was angry…she was very happy…she was embarrassed” lines in which you try to tell what the characters feelings are at the time.
These sentences usually appear in my first draft of my story. I then have to go back and start “Showing” what my character does when he/she is angry, happy or embarrassed. Because I have learned that letting my readers see what my character is feeling and the effect it has on them physically makes my character more real…more alive.
Sometimes, when I’m trying to write about the “look” my character has for a specific emotion, I need a little help. Luckily, I found a great book titled “The Emotion Thesaurus: A Writers Guide to Character Expression” by Angela Ackerman and Becca Puglisi. This book…
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