#WritersCoffeeClub #WCC 2504.04 — What are some tips and tricks you use to convey strong emotions?

I think this is where my use of Grammar B helps me. Strong emotions, even things like anger, I think are associated with confusion and levels of self-doubt, which leads to cycles of justification or re-evaluation on the fly, quickly, immediately, erratically. or it just might conceivably—or very possibly since MURPHY in all things, right?—get worse, far worse; that type of thing.

The last sentence is a short example of a Grammar B run-on. It is non-grammatical; your high school English teacher would grade it a Fail. What it does is breathlessly fire off thought after thought in a continuing sequence, no sequence dependent on the sequence before. It flows. Like a speech. The reader never needs to backtrack to deduce meaning. Such a construct could be cut into individual sentences, standardized. But. Why? Rhythm of any sort drives the reader forward. It creates tension. All useful when writing emotion. A flood of description to overwhelm the senses, like the emotion itself.

Another construction I think works, usually mixed carefully with the run-on to break repeating rhythms, is telegraphy. I used that in the previous paragraph. Did you. Notice? Short, non-grammatical sentences. Missing a verb, a noun, or what not. It works like a drumbeat, focusing the reader on individual word or unsupported phrase meanings—and you get extra credit if you use a word with multiple meanings that could conceivably apply in context; emotion is confusion, innit?

In a sense, Grammar B is like finding poetry in prose. Used right, it uniquely depicts emotion. This is why I call myself a "prosaist."

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Okay. #Writingadvice, author observation: You wake, laying there, thinking through the scene, writing it with great clarity, living it in your head— Again... Dang it! Just get up and write it! It's so much easier than resolving to write later, later, ever later, until the impulse fades in exhaustion and ADHD procrastination, and it always fades. Always.

What I'd done Saturday.

Then Sunday.

1,600 words. Ended the chapter. Then two bridge paragraphs in the subsequent chapter to accommodate the embarrassingly frisky MCs showing-not-telling circumlocutions—AND why am I writing this sequence in reverse order?

Dunno, but it's working.

Now, back to sleep, hopefully, after two morning hours typing furiously, words that a year ago I'd never have been able to write....

I'm tired.