What someone calls “Joy” is called “Happiness” by another. There is no agreed-upon method to name emotions.Do emotions resemble a list, a tree structure, or a three-dimensional shape? Can they even be visualized? There is no agreed-upon method to organize emotions.Some are even in conflict with one another. Many lists of emotions have been generated, yet no matter how much they overlap, they never quite converge.However, as with most things, we can learn to be better at emotions.īut where to begin? Emotions are complicated and confusing. So, depicting them in our stories can seem an impossible task. Ironically, even though we’ve all experienced many, many emotions throughout our lives, few humans are experts. Even books about negative characters can be interesting to us because of their emotional content due to what James Scott Bell calls a “‘car wreck’ dynamic”. ![]() While that’s certainly true of “Twilight”, I think it holds true for all books. Randy Ingermanson once said that people read books because they want to have an emotional experience.
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