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Teaching & AcademicsHumanitiesCreative Writing

Creative Writing: showing character emotions

Enhance any story with realistic emotional responses and facial expression thanks to the "show don't tell" technique
Rating: 4.1 out of 54.1 (27 ratings)
272 students
Created by Luca Panzarella
Last updated 7/2020
English
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What you'll learn

  • Create a three-dimensional character with realistic emotional responses
  • Show and make reader feel emotions, like anxiety, depression, anger, desire, boredom and many other
  • Write emotional, realistic scenes in your novel
  • Put into practice the "show, don't tell" technique

Requirements

  • Knowing the basics of creative writing
  • Enough time to work on the exercises
  • A lot of passion

Description

How do you convey an emotion? The answer to this question is a very complicated challenge for us writers, perhaps the most difficult one of all of them: that’s why we can’t take it lightly.
Of course, we could write: “And then, the main character in our story... died”.

Was that clear? No doubt.

But did we stir anguish in the reader? Fear? Awe? Concern? Well, no, not really.

And the truth is, it’s not easy to convey an emotion to the reader, in the same way that it’s not easy to talk about it in real life.

Many of us prefer to show our emotions through actions, or by buying a gift, for example a bouquet of flowers: but how do we make our reader feel the love that two characters are feeling for each other without falling into clichés? How do we make the reader sad when our character has lost someone they care about? How do we make them frightened when our character is investigating a murder? The simple answer is: through the “show, don't tell” principle, and we’ve talked about it at length in our course “Creative writing: the full course”.

We need to become excellent sociologists or psychologists, or scholars of social and romantic relationships; or, as an alternative, you can enroll this course.

How do you show and make people feel anxiety, depression, anger, desire, boredom and many other emotions that we will describe in this course?

How do you make the scene in which the character is feeling such an emotion a realistic one, and how do you make your reader feel it—almost like they’re living in that moment themselves?

We will compare sentences that “tell”, or describe an emotion, with those that “show” it and that trigger the same feelings in us who are reading.

We will make a detailed list of the bodily reactions that each emotion provokes in us.

Because that’s the only way you can learn how to really get your reader excited.

Are you ready to begin this journey? I can’t wait!

Who this course is for:

  • writers
  • fiction writers
  • actors

Instructor

Luca Panzarella
Geek, digital product designer and storyteller.
Luca Panzarella
  • 4.3 Instructor Rating
  • 1,697 Reviews
  • 8,057 Students
  • 14 Courses

My name is Luca and I have two great passions: web product design and writing stories.

I started working as a consultant in 2007 and since then I've created hundreds of web and mobile projects.

I've written "Living as a freelancer", an italian guide for freelancer wannabe that has been sold more than 3.000 copies.

I've launched a writing contest website which have become the most popular among writers and poets.

Before teaching, I'm a great student about my two passions: design and literature. That's why I teach web product design as a writer and fiction writing as an engineer.

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