07-19-2006, 12:39 PM
--->First make the reader connect emotionally
-> In order for anything to seem or feel, you as the author have the responsibility for instilling a 'feeling' the readers can connect to, and thus, builds passion. Your characters need to have motivation, a goal, something that drives them in their emotions.
--->Second, emotion is like snowfall, it accumulates overtime
->This is the most important aspect. Time. Time to build a character that has weaknesses and faults. Time to shape your character throughout the story and effect the reader overall. Impulsive emotion stands like puddle water: stagnant, drawn out, and shallow.
--->Thirdly, create a tone through SETTING or scene.
->Something that helps, or that I think, is the setting which the action takes place. Tone through setting instills a sense of mood throughout it, an image thats not refined, yet known.
[For instance]
[And from my own thoughts...]
-Your main character could 'copulate' in a small forest grotto overlooking a masoned overhang, shadows encroaching their wears as they dance between it and the moonlight. Above, the guards stir in dismal sleep.
-Your main character could 'mate' in a steel cage inside a petting zoo. The rich aroma of manure tantalizing to him like smelling the skin of his mate. Nearby animals stir in their presence, their lull grunts an odd sounding chorus that he finds beautiful. He takes her into the drinking fountain--the rock outcrop just before the steel bars--the highest limb entrapped by the endless netting.
-Your main character could 'devil' in the middle of a hostile skirmish, bullets being exchange so close to their faces, the air around them steams. Men die on their feet: Trooper Manzelli stumbles back from his fire slit, face split in a cruel half; Sharpshooter Letten ejects a hot magazine onto your heroine's bare skin, forcing her cries louder than before, making the hero wary. His belittled fortess of Hab Containers buckle under the bullets swording throughout its sides, but the lovers continue....
[They're not perfect]
In any case, setting can greatly enhance emotions.
-> In order for anything to seem or feel, you as the author have the responsibility for instilling a 'feeling' the readers can connect to, and thus, builds passion. Your characters need to have motivation, a goal, something that drives them in their emotions.
--->Second, emotion is like snowfall, it accumulates overtime
->This is the most important aspect. Time. Time to build a character that has weaknesses and faults. Time to shape your character throughout the story and effect the reader overall. Impulsive emotion stands like puddle water: stagnant, drawn out, and shallow.
--->Thirdly, create a tone through SETTING or scene.
->Something that helps, or that I think, is the setting which the action takes place. Tone through setting instills a sense of mood throughout it, an image thats not refined, yet known.
[For instance]
[And from my own thoughts...]
-Your main character could 'copulate' in a small forest grotto overlooking a masoned overhang, shadows encroaching their wears as they dance between it and the moonlight. Above, the guards stir in dismal sleep.
-Your main character could 'mate' in a steel cage inside a petting zoo. The rich aroma of manure tantalizing to him like smelling the skin of his mate. Nearby animals stir in their presence, their lull grunts an odd sounding chorus that he finds beautiful. He takes her into the drinking fountain--the rock outcrop just before the steel bars--the highest limb entrapped by the endless netting.
-Your main character could 'devil' in the middle of a hostile skirmish, bullets being exchange so close to their faces, the air around them steams. Men die on their feet: Trooper Manzelli stumbles back from his fire slit, face split in a cruel half; Sharpshooter Letten ejects a hot magazine onto your heroine's bare skin, forcing her cries louder than before, making the hero wary. His belittled fortess of Hab Containers buckle under the bullets swording throughout its sides, but the lovers continue....
[They're not perfect]
In any case, setting can greatly enhance emotions.