April Online Workshops Available
And That Includes the New Emotions in Writing…
These online workshops are available in April.
Dign up directly at
Class #31… Apr 2nd … Endings
Class #32… Apr 2nd … Point of View
Class #33… Apr 2nd … Writing Mysteries
Class #34… Apr 2nd … Speed
Class #35… Apr 2nd … Teams in Fiction
Class #36… Apr 3rd … Depth in Writing
Class #37… Apr 3rd … How to Use Tags
Class #38… Apr 3rd … Character Development
Class #39… Apr 3rd… Information Flow
Class #40… Apr 3rd … Emotion in Writing
Here is a blurb for the Emotions in Writing workshop. It will be offered in April, May, June, and then every-other-month after that.
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EMOTION IN WRITING Online Workshop…
Understanding this very complex element of fiction writing is difficult, at best. It seems on the surface to be so easy. Any writer can give a character emotions, right? Well, on a light surface level, maybe, but just below that surface is one of the most powerful tools a writer has in his or her craft toolbox.
Emotion makes characters come alive and readers care about the character and thus stay in your story.
Emotion gives characters a past.
There are many ways to add emotion into stories. Some work, some do not. And not all emotion is making a reader cry. Humor is a form of emotion. So is something simple (when done correctly) as hunger.
Emotion adds depth to a character, which I suppose this workshop could be called Character Depth. A character, without emotion, has no depth.
This workshop is designed to help you see when emotion is present in a story and learn how to put it in. There are five major ways to add emotion in a story and a hundred minor ways. We will cover the five and try to get to as many of the minor ones as possible in these six weeks.
Presented in a similar fashion as the Depth Workshop, you must have taken the Depth Workshop to take this class.
2 Comments
Martin L. Shoemaker
I won’t be able to get to the Depth workshop in April. When will that be offered next? I want to do that one and Emotions when some funds free up.
dwsmith
Depth is every month. It is the only class offered every month. After the first three months, Emotion will go to every-other-month schedule.