Perhaps the most important thing to remember when searching for emotional honesty is that emotion
is not one-dimensional. Emotions are complex and often mixed together....
Think of a bride on her wedding day. It would be too easy and too flat to describe her as simply happy.
Instead, she is excited, apprehensive, worried, fearful, anxious, joyful, smug--so many emotions! But
if you, the writer, can capture her feelings exactly right--with the perfect turn of phrase, or simile, or
fresh image--you will tell the reader more about this character and this story than you can imagine.
One of the things we need to do when rendering emotions is to see our characters as complex beings
who experience a range of feelings. If we start a story with a character in despair, we have to move
that character through many emotions before our story ends with him hopeful. Also, the faces of
despair and hope and every emotion are multifaceted. Just as sadness is not just crying, each emotion
is not represented by one dimension. The layers of an emotion often hold other emotions too.
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