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It always strikes me as funny that in our daily lives we pass through a whole spectrum of emotions and show them in many ways, some obvious and some subtle, yet in our fiction we often have trouble moving our characters through emotions effectively. Read the first page
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3.0 out of 5 stars
Could Provide More In-Depth Info,
By A Customer
This review is from: Creating Character Emotions (Paperback)
Though this book does discuss character emotions, it does so with seemingly as little depth as possible. Not to say that the book is no good; it is an interesting read & helpful as well. However, I believe more depth is necessary in creating character emotions than this book provides.
5.0 out of 5 stars
Practical and extremely useful for begining writers,
By Charles Siu (Solana Beach, CA United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Creating Character Emotions (Paperback)
This book should prove extremely useful for any writer who's just starting out or just beginning to send stuff out to publishers; Ms. Hood goes chapter by chapter through the entire gamut of primary human emotions, with bad examples (cliches, stereotypes,ineffective useage, overly expository, or emotionally dead language) and good exmaples following each. No matter how obvious the bad examples may or may not be (and I for one, aren't so sure that some beginning writers are reading the bad examples and thinking...hmmm, seems okay to me), I strongly recommend following the exercises; it's one thing to read a writing mechanics book like this, but put it into practice 4 stars. A great book for my writing toolkit.
4.0 out of 5 stars
wrong time in my life for this book,
By cammykitty "cammykitty" (Minneapolis, MN United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Creating Character Emotions (Paperback)
I'm wavering between giving this book 3 stars or 4 stars. I was hoping this book would give me the background techniques for showing emotions in my fiction. Well, that information is in this book, but you have to dig for it. The book deals with emotions one by one, an emotion dictionary, rather than outlaying a few useful techniques for showing emotion in general -- tips such as the word for the emotion need not be used to portray the emotion. & also, even though the word for a particular emotion is used, the passage may not describe that emotion. Tips like sometimes you can get to the heart of the emotion by showing contrasts etc etc. The techniques are all there, but they are explained in odd places, during her discussion of her "bad examples," her "good examples" or even during her exercises.The dictionary/exercise format is why I say this book came at the wrong point in my life. Right now I am "1 fiction week" away from finishing a first draft and the end is pulling me. I can't carve out the time in the day to finish it as quickly as I'd wish too. Tonight ideally. So, unless an exercise fits right into the next scene I need to write, I'm not going to do it. However, if I were reading this between projects, I'd be doing the exercises thoroughly and looking for my next story between the lines. I will say that her "good examples" are incredible excerpts from incredible authors. If you are trying to hone your writing skills, you'd do well to read her excerpts and then the books her excerpts came from. The underlying lesson of this book is if you have a trouble spot in your writing, you can go to your library and see how someone else has handled the problem. A very important lesson. And here's another lesson that is not a new idea but it is still a valid idea. Hood says "Years ago, in Barcelona, I visited the Picasso Museum. As I wandered through the building, admiring the still lifes and nudes, I kept wondering where all the Picassos were. And then an English-speaking visitor explained to me: These were all Picassos, done while he was a student there. In other words, Picasso didn't begin by inventing Cubism. He first had to study and experiment with the same ordinary forms every painter begins with." What a personal and elegant way to say, start simple, study your craft, have patience with yourself, have persistance. Doesn't her quote mean a lot more than my little interpretation of it? So, this is a good helpful book, and when I'm not running after that ending of my first draft, I'll go back and look at this book more closely. It may give me what I need for the second draft.
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