Creating Character Emotions
- ISBN-10
- 1884910335
- ISBN-13
- 9781884910333
- Category
- Reference
- Pages
- 176
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1998-02-15
- Publisher
- Story Press
- Author
- Ann Hood
Description
In this unique book, Ann Hood will help you find fresh, creative images, words and gestures to evoke feelings in your fiction. In 36 "mini-lessons," Hood sheds new light on love, hate, fear, grief, guilt, hope, jealousy and other major emotions. Each lesson offers instruction on rendering that particular sentiment; "good" and "bad" examples illustrating how writers have succeeded and where others have gone wrong; and imaginative exercises for putting the feeling into words.
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