‫Hello writers.
‫And welcome back to another lecture on writing a fantasy novel.
‫This lecture is going to be centered around writing emotion into a novel in order to get the reader
‫more interested in characters and events writing emotion into any novel requires vast amounts of practice.
‫If you wish to write a scene of or interaction of the cup and my experience one of two novels worth
‫of emulating emotions in writing should help you set a general idea of how to convey emotion effectively.
‫First thing you must bear in mind when writing emotions is that there is no rushing.
‫Emotions require patience in order to reach the full effect.
‫If you are writing a horror you need to lead up to the scare with proper suspense or shock.
‫You need to lower your reader into a false sense of security and have them on the edge of their seat.
‫Of course the big question is how do you write that into a fantasy novel.
‫I'm sure you heard of the saying that the best way to write any emotion is from your perspective.
‫Pace yourself in front of a therapist and open your heart with emotion.
‫You will notice the words you speak are going to be drawn out as you find the right words to convey
‫your emotions properly.
‫In that way a patient explains how they are feeling to a doctor.
‫You need to have the character convey or narrate an emotion as if you explain it in the same way the
‫reader wants to feel those emotions when you reach a certain scene in your novel.
‫So take a moment to write a paragraph or two or three to properly convey what sensations are consuming
‫your characters.
‫Another way to emphasize the impact of these paragraphs is not to have them as often throughout your
‫novel.
‫Generally the best way I find for writing any emotion is to have a distinct contrast in what is happening
‫before.
‫If you want positive sights and smells to have more of an impact on the character and reader you need
‫to hammer at home by having a dog scene before it.
‫Allow me to explain this great example of contrast by referring to Lord Of The Rings.
‫For those unfamiliar I'll try to describe it as best I can in a particular sequence in the first book.
‫A main character being Frodo is injured pierced with a sword of an evil entity.
‫The longer the wound is untreated the more he slips into death and darkness to become like the evil
‫entity that stabbed him.
‫The next pages are intense agony and suspense as the allies of Frodo rush to him to Riverdale and a
‫place where you can be treated.
‫The sequence is suspenseful and painful to lead as Frodo suffers constantly pursued by more antagonists
‫as well.
‫Luckily Frodo does reach Riverdale but with the help of his allies when all seems lost.
‫From there the book describes Riverdale for its beauty the sights the sounds the smells the tastes of
‫the food that he is given.
‫There is an overwhelming sense of calm that washes over the reader and they revel in the break from
‫such dark moments.
‫This powerful lead up to such is simple and calm happy seeing is what made the scene so memorable for
‫others.
‫If the scene was just following another it wouldn't seem as amazing.
‫It would seem quite normal compared to what has been happening in the novel.
‫However by spacing out these happy scenes but darker scenes as much as a space are dark scenes of happy
‫scenes.
‫You're maintaining interest within the characters you're not throwing them into the same happy scene
‫or the same dark scene over and over again.
‫This variety is what will keep the reader reading when you are crafting such emotional scenes in your
‫novel you need to understand that you can't drop emotions out of nowhere and you can't drop them constantly
‫piecemeal motion in your novel and try to describe emotions how you would describe it to a therapist.
‫Slow and easy.
‫Finding the right words.
‫Many chapters can be written with ease and speed without taking anything from the novel but any emotion
‫negative or positive needs some build up to have the best effect.
‫Before I conclude this lesson I want to provide you with a challenge you are to write two or three paragraphs
‫describing a forest and how it affects a character of your own positively.
‫Then write two or three paragraphs about the same scene but how it affects your character negatively.
‫Take your time and you are sure to be surprised by what emotional descriptions you write with your creative
‫mind.
‫You can either be changing the forest to create negative or positive effects or you can change the character
‫the way that they are or their past which is why they have those emotions in the forest.
‫With that this lesson comes to an end in the next lecture.
‫I'll be talking about law and how it affects the overall fantasy of your novel See you in the next video.