171 How to Raise the Emotional Stakes in your Novel with Stephanie Dethlefs
The Rebel Author Podcast
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Writing Prose
The key is to get sensory and really drop into the character's body so rather than saying she was angry think about like okay if I was in her body right now where would I be feeling that anger or it might be something different. If we can kind of brainstorm some of those things off to the side of actually drafting then when we go to write a scene where the character's feeling anxious we can just pull from that. Also like to think about like associated colors and words that the protagonist might say in dialogue if they're feeling that way.
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