E is for Emotions

Writing emotions can be hard, but it's vital if you want your reader to care about your main characters.

When you are editing your work think about what you want your readers to feel at different points during the story? How do you want your reader to feel when they finish reading? 

How do the characters in the story feel about what is happening? What type of person is your character? What would he or she would do when faced with the situation you're writing about? What's your characters body language like when they are happy or upset? Are your descriptions consistent and believable.

I've found the following resources extremely helpful.

Although this isn't a writing book I found it incrediably useful. 

'A Woman in Your Own Right Assertiveness and You' Anne Dickson

Another great book is 'Writing with Emotion, Tension, & Conflict' by Cheryl St. John 

Fellow writer and blogger Lane Swift (http://laneswift.com) swears by her copy of 'The Emotion Thesaurus: A Writer's Guide to Character Expression' by Angela Ackerman and Becca Puglisi.

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