171 How to Raise the Emotional Stakes in your Novel with Stephanie Dethlefs
The Rebel Author Podcast
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Making Emotions Feel Real and Not Cliched
I think that the key is just to be really clear from the beginning even if you're somebody who wants to write your way into the story I think if it you can at least have a clear understanding of where your character is at the beginning emotionally and where they are going to get at the end. And then in each scene being really intentional about knowing where is my character how is my character coming into this scene emotionally and how are they going to leave this scene emotionally. So like the age odd advice is to show not don't tell but yeah that's so complicated we could do an entire episode on that probably.
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