The Emotional Craft Of Fiction · Premium Quality

Create a discrepancy between what a character says and what they do. A character saying "I’m fine" while crushing a soda can in their hand tells a much more powerful story than a confession of anger. 4. Setting as Emotional Weather

Focus on sensory details that change based on mood. To a person in love, the city sounds like a symphony; to a person with a migraine, it sounds like a construction site. 5. Pacing and Sentence Structure The rhythm of your prose dictates the reader's pulse. The Emotional Craft of Fiction

Use an object, situation, or chain of events to serve as the formula for a particular emotion (e.g., a cracked windshield representing a broken relationship). 2. Physicality and the Interior Monologue Humans experience emotion in the body first. Create a discrepancy between what a character says