Writing Real Emotional Stories

As a writer, one of my goals is to write with real emotion. It’s not always easy. It is always scary. I can guarantee it’s going to hurt. But it will always be worth it. Last night I submitted a revised copy of The Forgotten Ones to my editor. This...

Emotional Experience In Writing

Once again, we have another fabulous guest post on the emotional impact within our writing! Author Lee Thompson is about to take you on a journey – get ready! And thank you Lee for your guest post for our Emotional Thesaurus workshop! ~~ Within all...

Good Person + Bad Situation = Emotion!

Get ready – the wonderful M.K. Stelmack is about to illicit an emotional response from you within her first five words. Thank you so much M.K for guest blogging about emotion during our Emotional Thesaurus Workshop! ~~~ Life isn’t good right now. My sister is...

“My character cried,” I sobbed.

I have the awesome Karen A. Chase here as part of our Emotional Thesaurus Workshop. Karen talks about crying in books – something I love to do and write 😉  This scene from Something’s Gotta Give exemplifies crying while writing about crying. I’m sure the...

Emotional Thesaurus Workshop!

I’m so excited to announce this month long workshop! Emotions. They can make or break a story. They are the words you use to describe the way your characters react to a situation. They are the way you entice your readers to want to read on. They are the essence...