How Can You Tap Deep Emotions That Connect With Readers?

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Historical and speculative novelist K.M. Weiland offers tips and essays about the writing life to help other writers understand the ins and outs of the craft and the psychology behind the inspiration.
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This week's question is from @levvellene570:
"I would like to ask you this one thing about your recent blog-post about despair vs hope, (and you already pointed to some ways of not doing it the wrong way, anyway!): How can any of us who never really experienced personal despair describe, or transcribe, that to others? I went there in my own way long ago, and being male, I never (of course!) talked about it (naturally... 😉). But that was my subjective experience, after all. Do you feel there is a common feeling of human decency that we will all tap into, when we read moving novels/stories?"
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@JamesRDavenport 10 месяцев назад

Writing is a type of acting. Having that training really helps because that's the process by which actors execute their craft also. Unless they go Method, and I've done that too, Method Writing ( modern character is stuck in the past experiencing Medieval clothes for the first time, so I bought authentic ones and wore them around while I working on the book!) But yes, we tap into our own emotional memory to give our characters life. That's essential. We shouldn't fear revealing ourselves through our creations. It's the secret sauce!

@pinang1 10 месяцев назад

that's a great thought

@peterbreiter4726 10 месяцев назад

So good to hear you affirming Connection between authors, characters, and audience as a deep healing source and raison d’être for fiction and story. Isn’t that why we’re here? Whether loving our neighbor or Namaste connection, we rise together, and affirm doing so.

@litabrooker7872 2 месяца назад

I especially like the idea of the reader being the co-writer.

@michaelalbrecht6156 10 месяцев назад

Hi Katie You short videos are excellent, short and concise which is very important in our days. I struggle with listening to 90 min videos, but yours are giving valuable information in a very short time span. I totally agree what you point out, writers of historic epochs have always used their subjective life experiences to dive deep and reflect them through the emotions of their characters. If we read biographies of those writers we find that many of them had very rich lives with many diverse experiences that formed and shaped those people into someone who was able to articulate their own truth as universal truth. As they reflected by their personal life the events of the historical period they lived in, readers are still able today to understand the culture and way of thinking of times long past. We are called us writers to take up that bate in our time and to become reflectors of the presence that one day will become past.

@annemarieslee7720 9 месяцев назад

wonderfully said!

@valharbolovic9608 10 месяцев назад

How reassuring to hear you say that it's ok to be your own subjective writer self, and that it's still possible to connect with a reader who has their own subjective self.

@signalenergie 10 месяцев назад

I think it's great that you never give up and share your experiences with other writers.

@annemarieslee7720 9 месяцев назад

gosh, so glad i found your channel. Bought your book about outlining years and years ago. Now finally have the time and the cottage in Scotland (a one minute walk from the sea) to write it all right. Thank you, I really like your structured approach towards the craft. Love from Cellardyke, east coast bonnie Scotland.

@mageprometheus 10 месяцев назад

I’ve experienced many emotions. Love, grief, the horror of war. They will stay with me for life and while I wish I could forget some of them, it will never happen. Emotions from books may produce change but don’t have the power to create scars. They feed us and strengthen us. When writing emotional prose, we are trying to trigger the brain’s pathways and not create a real-world experience. It’s a manipulative tactic to provide our readers pleasure. They select genres they enjoy matching their preferred experiences.

@kensaik9904 10 месяцев назад

Thanks!

@KMWeilandAuthor 10 месяцев назад

Thank you so much! Very kind of you. I'm so glad you're enjoying the vids. :)

@bluenetmarketing 11 месяцев назад

How many times have you had tears in your eyes as you are writing a passage, and what are some of them? It definitely happens to me.

@QuanticDreamer 11 месяцев назад

I've never cried, but there was one time I went so deep into the rabbit hole of understanding a character, I was broken and depressed for days.

@sivabalamanigandansivbaals6634 10 месяцев назад

@@QuanticDreamer can you elaborate on this please? Like what was the situation? What was the deeper layer that you have come to know?

@AdaWPanda 10 месяцев назад

@KMWeilandAuthor I've been going through the character archetypes and really looking at where my characters fit. One thing that I began to wonder, though, is how do the Flat Archetypes fit into the Want/Need/Fear setup? There seems to be plenty of ways a character/person in general could still have these despite going through a transformative arc (e.g. a fear of losing trust from others -- Ruler, maybe? -- or of losing their loved ones -- Parent, maybe?), but it seems like these fears won't get in the way of the Truth they've now learned. So I was curious if flat archetypes can even be mapped onto Want/Need/Fear in context to the plot or in relation to other characters. I am assuming that flat archetypes will tend to hold a Truth as you've noted before. Any advice on creating deeper character setups with the flat archetype?

@ArtRitter-w1f 10 месяцев назад

Please include the transcript with these videos!

@KMWeilandAuthor 10 месяцев назад

Unfortunately, I can't as they run over RU-vid's word limit.

@sivabalamanigandansivbaals6634 11 месяцев назад

KM love❤ 💕

@TheZetaKai 10 месяцев назад

I'm pretty sure that she's married, and I'm even more sure that you're being weird.

@sivabalamanigandansivbaals6634 10 месяцев назад

@@TheZetaKai yes, you are right. I was just expressing my love and affection for her not expecting anything from return. Anyways, Good day♥️

@TheZetaKai 10 месяцев назад

They say that you should write what you know, and while I think that advice is overrated, you should definitely write about your own emotional truth. You can research different time periods, different fields of science, or different cultures. But you can't meaningful research different emotional states than what you've experienced, or what you're willing to relive. That's not to say that you can't write about characters who have lived through things that you haven't, but the emotional depth of your characters is at its best when it's a reflection of your own personal perspective.

@miaramck6746 11 месяцев назад

I think our culture is losing the idea of the universal human story. It would be a tragedy if it was lost forvever. We are the ones that need to revive it.