Fifteen minutes long, because you're in a hurry, and we're not that smart.
For the next several episodes we’ll be talking about tension. That may seem like a lot of time to spend on just one word, but as we unpack the word ‘tension’ in this episode you’ll see that there is plenty of material to work with.
How to go about showing a character’s emotions without them seeming emo.
Emote! Now do it authentically! In this episode we’ll explain how we do it, and hopefully help you do it better.
Brandon, Dan, Howard, and Mary talk about making characters do dumb things for smart reasons.
John Brown joins us again, and tells us that fiction “is all about guiding an emotional response in a reader.” We begin with a discussion of depression, which John (like many of us) had to deal with. He tells us about the paths for emotional response, and how a beginning…
