Episode 05 | Emotional Truth
The most engaging stories are those that contain emotional truth.
So, what is emotional truth? And how can you get it onto the page?
Christy and Sharon explore what it means to write emotional truth, and how, when you write from a place that is emotionally true, the reader will truly connect to that, even if you’re writing about something they have not personally experienced.
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“Truthfulness to life—both fantasy life and factual life—is the basis of all great art.”
“…the visual manner and medium of a book mattered far less than the emotional truth it had to tell.”
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I want you to think about an event from your past—an incident that that brings up a lot of emotions.
And then I want you to find an article online or a newspaper article about something that happened to somebody else.
Take the details from that story and write it while keeping YOUR emotion in it, the emotional reality of what you went through and see how you can make a story out of that.
Because like I said earlier, I really believe if you’re writing true, then the story can be about anything.
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