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This week, Holly chats with Angela Ackerman about portraying realistic emotions on the page.
- Making emotions realistic and relatable
- Ensuring characters are consistent without being repetitive
- Show don’t tell
- Integrating setting into the story
- Creating conflict
- Collaborating with other authors
Angela Ackerman is a writing coach, international speaker, and co-author of the bestselling book, The Emotion Thesaurus: A Writer’s Guide to Character Expression, and its many sequels. Available in nine languages, her guides are sourced by US universities, recommended by agents and editors, and are used by novelists, screenwriters, and psychologists around the world. To date, this book collection has sold over 900,000 copies.
Angela is also the co-founder of the popular site Writers Helping Writers, as well as One Stop for Writers, a portal to game-changing tools and resources that enable writers to craft powerful fiction.
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