Writing Compelling Approaches That Express Your Character’s True Feelings

Whereas in Plot & Structurewe got tips on how to build a novel, Creating Character Emotionshelps writers to find creative images, words and gestures to evoke feelings.

Ann Hood gives two pieces of advice:

1. To write like yourself. As Janet Burroway says in her book Writing Fictionthat the ideas must be experienced through or with the characters ; they must be felt or the fiction will fail.

2. To separate life from fiction. We can’t rely on easy emotional associations or true stories to render f...