The Emotional Craft Of Fiction Site

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.

Characters often talk about the weather or a trivial task when they are actually grieving or terrified. The Emotional Craft of Fiction

If you say a character is "sad," you’ve given the reader a label. If you describe the character’s inability to wash the single coffee mug left in the sink, you’ve given them the feeling. Use an object, situation, or chain of events

In fiction, emotion isn't something a character has ; it’s something the reader feels . Use an object

Use short, choppy sentences. Fragments. Rapid-fire thoughts.