The 3-Step Formula to Evoke Emotion and Make Your Readers Feel
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The External Action of a Scene
Once you have an emotion in mind, your next step is to look at the external action in the scene. In episode 32 of the podcast, I studied that scene from Spider-Man where Miles proves to himself that he is Spider-Man by leaping off a skyscraper and swinging through the city. The external action alone is not the element that will cause your reader to feel big feelings, but the external action creates the context in which feeling big feelings is possible.
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