How do you convey emotion in words?
DawnRaider
Dr
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Dr
Fire of Insight
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Joined 10th Oct 2018 Forum Posts: 31
From my point of view; yes, all the time and then something happens, good or bad, something pisses me off or makes me smile and I write about how I feel. Write from your heart and you can't go far wrong my friend
drone
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Tyrant of Words
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Joined 3rd Sep 2011 Forum Posts: 2252
I put everything
that I have inside
into the words
that I write
but the problem
becomes a bitch
when I try to fit words
into the meaning
of what I feel
and they have to fit
the words
that come after
the biggest bitch of all
is the feelings
that I have
that have meaning
but there are NO words
to convey the thoughts
that i'm feeling
so the only thing
I can do
is use
a poor substitute
words
that I have inside
into the words
that I write
but the problem
becomes a bitch
when I try to fit words
into the meaning
of what I feel
and they have to fit
the words
that come after
the biggest bitch of all
is the feelings
that I have
that have meaning
but there are NO words
to convey the thoughts
that i'm feeling
so the only thing
I can do
is use
a poor substitute
words
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Nari
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Laura Jean
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Offer a portal ie other wordly; escapism through story telling. People are generally on board with that kind of thing.
Karlasophia
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Strange Creature
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As a rule, everything is written on my face
blinkers55
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Strange Creature
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love and happiness excluding all others
blocat
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Write it anyway, no matter how bad you think it is then start to go over it a line at a time. Pick on the emotive words and ask: is there a better word? A word that expresses how I feel better than this word? For instance: Could I use the word rage instead of the word anger? Then, step back and ignore it for a day or so before taking another look. Even a genius like Ernest Hemmingway said his first draft of anything he wrote was shit.
I'm not saying this is the right way for you, but it works for me. That's how I'd do it anyway. Good luck with it.
I'm not saying this is the right way for you, but it works for me. That's how I'd do it anyway. Good luck with it.
badmalthus
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Harry Rout
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A new born's coffin is so small and fragile...
I like Blocat's answer and I'd expand on that a tiny bit more. Examine every word - actions, emotions, tenses. Can you say it with more emphasis, authenticity? Does everything flow? Say the poem out loud - how does it make you feel?
David_Macleod
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witing from the extremities of personal emotions are now second nature to me, I find it comes to the fore more and more and I have to deliberately change the mood in which I write. Somebody quite famous taught a very important lesson once. He said write something, anything, but, spend two hours writing every day, 7 days a week, despite mood. This I have practised since 2014. I would say about after six months of this you will start to write more organically and your mind will pick the subjects you write about, so much so that you will start to write a finished poem and where the hell that one came from