Sunday, July 31, 2016

Emotion in writing a character journey

Stories tend to be about a character who feels a negative emotion.  And they must complete a task in order to quell that emotion.  For instance, a man may feel guilt if he does not confess his sins.  The story would take place with the man trying to not feel guilty but failing until he realizes that he must confess his sins in order to not feel guilty.  The story is a journey to figure out what a character needs to do to control a certain emotion.

Another example could be a man feeling stressed and trying various things to appease that stress only to finally realize that it is work and making money that appeases his stress.  So most of the story could be the man seeking pleasures and not working to relieve stress only to find irony in work and pain relieving his stress.

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