It's been a while since I've looked back at my own writing, so I can say how guilty I am at avoiding making statements. It'll be an interesting aspect to look out for and I'm sure there'll be plenty of other habits that will frustrate me when I do go back.
When I read your pieces I don't think I've ever really been troubled or turned off by your way of dealing with emotions. Perhaps the uncertainty fits with your style and your voice, that part of you that doesn't want to be to told how you ought to feel bleeding through into your writing.
When I come to write again and have to consider this dilemma, I suppose I'll be considering if the character feeling the emotion - let's say shame as it is in the prompt - knows that what they're feeling is shame in particular, or do they assume they are feeling something different. Maybe they're being told off by a parent, or being given another sort of serious talking to, and the character can't figure out if they are feeling shame or are wishing they hadn't been caught. It would be interesting to see how I'd handle describing that emotion.
Or perhaps the person doing the telling off thinks that first character should be feeling shame and projects that feeling onto what they see of that character's behaviour. They're hanging their head - are the they ashamed or are they looking down so the other person caught tell that they're thinking 'Oh Christ, get on with it'?
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When I read your pieces I don't think I've ever really been troubled or turned off by your way of dealing with emotions. Perhaps the uncertainty fits with your style and your voice, that part of you that doesn't want to be to told how you ought to feel bleeding through into your writing.
When I come to write again and have to consider this dilemma, I suppose I'll be considering if the character feeling the emotion - let's say shame as it is in the prompt - knows that what they're feeling is shame in particular, or do they assume they are feeling something different. Maybe they're being told off by a parent, or being given another sort of serious talking to, and the character can't figure out if they are feeling shame or are wishing they hadn't been caught. It would be interesting to see how I'd handle describing that emotion.
Or perhaps the person doing the telling off thinks that first character should be feeling shame and projects that feeling onto what they see of that character's behaviour. They're hanging their head - are the they ashamed or are they looking down so the other person caught tell that they're thinking 'Oh Christ, get on with it'?