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Writing Excuses 9.19: Showing Emotion

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How to Write a Regency Book

The way I handle showing emotion when I'm writing the Regency books. Stylistically is very different than the way I do it if I'm handling, say, a tight third person. With the Regency, I'm actually much more likely to use an emotion word with a tight third-person SF. And I found in the YA, the editor who I'm willing to assume knows the genre really well, knows that a lot of teens are bundles of raging emotions and hormones. If they can't get a little bit more explicit,. You've got to turn the volume up enough that they can hear you over what's already going on inside.

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