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@jenwriter17 @Sam-kowal

I finally got around to reading my article: http://www.writersdigest.com/editor-blogs/there-are-no-rules/emotion-vs-feeling-evoke-readers

1. I love how this writer defines feeling as refined emotion. 🙂 That was a helpful definition to learn.

2. I thought his use of surprise to create emotion was interesting. It makes sense, though I’ve never really thought about it before. If a character sees an event coming, they’ll have a tempered response ready. But if it shocks them, their reaction will be raw emotion. I’ll have to experiment with that in my own writing.

3. I agree that a character needs to process a feeling to really experience it. That’s what turns an emotion into a feeling, I think.

Also, belaboring is a fantastic word XD I second what he said about digging deeper rather than pulling at the obvious emotion.