Christy and Sharon discuss source material, challenges with adhering too close to facts, and ways you can put some distance between you and the “way things really happened” in order to tell a compelling and emotionally resonant story.

People all the time tell us to write what we know, but the most deeply engaging stories are those that contain emotional truth.

So, what is emotional truth? And how can you get it onto the page?

In this episode, Christy and Sharon explore what it means to write emotional truth, to express the voice of your heart instead of the voice of your head, 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.