Purple Doesn’t Look Good on Anyone: How to Write Emotion

Readers come to a story wanting to feel something. It’s our task as writers to remind them that they’re human and prone to all the complexities of joy and sorrow that comes with that. For better or worse, that doesn’t happen by accident. It’s not enough to simply write about something sad.

This workshop will break down techniques essential for delivering emotion within fiction and nonfiction that avoid cliché, melodrama or disengaging the reader. It will focus on preventing pitfalls that are common among beginning and experienced writers, as well as how to deliver prose that are original and stay with the reader once they leave the story. We’ll look at how the whole scene can be used to create emotion, as well as an examination of how to best use interior monologue.

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Note: This seminar is free for those with a WRITER or SUPPORTER subscription to The Milk House. Subscribers can email RyanDennis@themilkhouse.org with their intent to attend. To see more information on subscriptions to The Milk House, visit here.