Conveying Emotions in the Story

Want to know the different ways of communicating emotion?  The ones I’m practicing currently?

  1. Internal physical sensations (“his head throbbed”)
  2. External physical sensations (“Suddenly the warm wind felt too hot”)
  3. Physical actions (“gripped tighter with whitened knuckles”)
  4. Stated emotion (“impatient, he shuffled his feet”)
  5. Emotion tied to a character or world (every time she’s stressed, she has knuckle in her mouth)

There’s more, but I’m only working on the above.

The list above courtesy of Katherine Crowley’s article.

 

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