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If I am writing a book, and my primary goal is creating a strong emotion in the reader, should I be able to 'feel' that emotion in the outline phase? My goal as an author is creating a strong emot...
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System
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2019-12-08T09:33:17Z (almost 5 years ago)
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William Oliver
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2019-12-08T09:33:17Z (almost 5 years ago)
If I am writing a book, and my primary goal is creating a strong emotion in the reader, should I be able to 'feel' that emotion in the outline phase? My goal as an author is creating a strong emotion, whether it be melancholy, triumph, dread, etc. However, I can't tell at all whether my story will evoke these complex emotions from the outline itself, before I actually begin to write the scenes involved. I am a short story/short film writer so I don't have experience with long form fiction. I always write short stories without outlining, so I don't have experience with that either. I can't tell if I am simply outlining bad stories, if it's not really possible to feel emotional content from the outline phase because of its dry and skeletal nature, or if I simply have a misunderstanding of outlining. Do other authors feel emotion in the outline phase? Or do they feel emotion only when they begin writing?
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System
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2018-08-03T03:17:20Z (over 6 years ago)
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