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writercisesOriginal Posting 8/9/2019
Okay. Let's start with a simple roll of the dice. Eight-sided, now! So, here's what you chose!1. Fear: a feeling of being afraid, frightened, scared.2. Anger: feeling angry. A stronger word for anger is rage.3. Sadness: feeling sad. Other words are sorrow, grief.4. Joy: feeling happy. Other words are happiness, gladness.5. Disgust: feeling something is wrong or nasty. Strong disapproval.6. Surprise: being unprepared for something.7. Trust: a positive emotion. Admiration is stronger, acceptance is weaker.8. Anticipation: looking forward positively to something that is going to happen.>From https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_emotions#Robert_Plutchik's_theoryThey also have this cool wheel, very colorful, with lots of emotions. https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_emotions#/media/File:Plutchik-wheel.svgAha! The leaves of the flower in the wheel are the eight from the list. So the pairs are actually1. Joy versus sadness2. Trust versus disgust3. Fear versus anger4. Surprise versus anticipationOkay...Anyway, roll your eight sided dice or simply pick a number from 1 to 8.Incidentally, if you don't have an eight-sided dice handy, you can also go to this link https://drive.google.com/open?id=1VUc0WqhGjbca-0s5k-eQJogo8-Ep-XdCqhcFfgrv5A8Each time you open it, you will get a new selected emotion. Or you can press CTRL-R and the spreadsheet will randomly pick another one.Now take that emotion, and do the method acting trick. Think about a time in your life when you have experienced that emotion. What caused it? What did you feel? How did your body react? What did you want to do to express that emotion?Now, let's consider making a scene where a character is experiencing that emotion. Go ahead, convert your experience into a scene. What happens to make the character experience the emotion? Who else is in the scene? What does the character say, do, how do they act while they feel that emotion? And then...Mostly, for this exercise, just write that snippet, that little scene, with one character experiencing an emotion. You can use the strong version, the middle version, or the weak version of the emotion, whichever one works best for you. But make sure that when your reader reads that scene, they can recognize that emotion. You probably don't want to come right out and say Joe was scared, but... What shows us that Joe is terrified? What makes us feel that terror? Or whichever emotion you picked.There you go. One emotion, one scene, one character. Now, spin that colorful wheel of emotions again! If you really want a hard exercise, take two random emotions, and show us the scene where the character experiences the first one, and then something happens and transforms it into the second one. Go ahead, I dare you. I double dare you!
Okay. Let's start with a simple roll of the dice. Eight-sided, now! So, here's what you chose!1. Fear: a feeling of being afraid, frightened, scared.2. Anger: feeling angry. A stronger word for anger is rage.3. Sadness: feeling sad. Other words are sorrow, grief.4. Joy: feeling happy. Other words are happiness, gladness.5. Disgust: feeling something is wrong or nasty. Strong disapproval.6. Surprise: being unprepared for something.7. Trust: a positive emotion. Admiration is stronger, acceptance is weaker.8. Anticipation: looking forward positively to something that is going to happen.>From https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_emotions#Robert_Plutchik's_theoryThey also have this cool wheel, very colorful, with lots of emotions. https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_emotions#/media/File:Plutchik-wheel.svgAha! The leaves of the flower in the wheel are the eight from the list. So the pairs are actually1. Joy versus sadness2. Trust versus disgust3. Fear versus anger4. Surprise versus anticipationOkay...Anyway, roll your eight sided dice or simply pick a number from 1 to 8.Incidentally, if you don't have an eight-sided dice handy, you can also go to this link https://drive.google.com/open?id=1VUc0WqhGjbca-0s5k-eQJogo8-Ep-XdCqhcFfgrv5A8Each time you open it, you will get a new selected emotion. Or you can press CTRL-R and the spreadsheet will randomly pick another one.Now take that emotion, and do the method acting trick. Think about a time in your life when you have experienced that emotion. What caused it? What did you feel? How did your body react? What did you want to do to express that emotion?Now, let's consider making a scene where a character is experiencing that emotion. Go ahead, convert your experience into a scene. What happens to make the character experience the emotion? Who else is in the scene? What does the character say, do, how do they act while they feel that emotion? And then...Mostly, for this exercise, just write that snippet, that little scene, with one character experiencing an emotion. You can use the strong version, the middle version, or the weak version of the emotion, whichever one works best for you. But make sure that when your reader reads that scene, they can recognize that emotion. You probably don't want to come right out and say Joe was scared, but... What shows us that Joe is terrified? What makes us feel that terror? Or whichever emotion you picked.There you go. One emotion, one scene, one character. Now, spin that colorful wheel of emotions again! If you really want a hard exercise, take two random emotions, and show us the scene where the character experiences the first one, and then something happens and transforms it into the second one. Go ahead, I dare you. I double dare you!