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Source: https://writers.stackexchange.com/q/36616
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Last Christmas my sister bought me a tome called _The Book of Human Emotions_ (by Tiffany Watt Smith). I just started reading it and it got me thinking about how a writer might arouse emotion in a reader (and **not** in terms of provoking them to throw the book out of the window in disgust).

Emotions are perhaps not my forte - I tend to be rather logical in my thinking, and so getting to the nitty-gritty of this kind of technique would be of enormous benefit to my writing (and perhaps would benefit other left-brainers reading these answers too). Consequently - no detail is too trivial.

To make it more focused, though - I would like answers to concentrate on one emotion: anger. And so my question is: how can a fiction writer elicit the emotion/feeling of anger in readers, in terms of getting them to feel and therefore closely identify with what the (angry) character is experiencing?

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**Research** :[Does this writing create emotion in the reader?](https://writing.stackexchange.com/questions/5761/does-this-writing-create-emotion-in-the-reader) makes a good start, but the question is about a particular piece of work and the answers are rather general.[What makes writing emotional?](https://writing.stackexchange.com/questions/1674/what-makes-writing-emotional) also makes inroads but the question is about technical writing and the answers are consequently about how to inject _personality_ in a paper. And, again - the advice (while good) is general.

Original score: 14