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Sunday Musings 22nd February 2014 – #MuseItUp #DaffodilAndTheThinPlace
Daffodil and the Thin Place
Chris’s question this week is:
How are writers able to capture true emotions within their writing?
We may write reality…and reality within non-real/fictional worlds…but
our characters need to feel/read real which includes emotions. Hence the
above question.
Here’s my reply:
Before I write a story, I try to view the series of events in my imagination, like a movie. I identify with the various characters and try to feel things from their perspective, getting to know them as if they are real people.
If I can draw on personal experience, I remember and mentally reproduce the emotion so I can apply it to my character’s situation.
My dreams are often very vivid and when I wake up, I still feel the emotion that I’ve felt in my dream. Obviously, I can’t be sure the way I’m reacting is exactly the same as it would be if I’d really experienced the incident but if it’s something I haven’t already experienced, it’s as close as I can get and I harness that feeling to describe my characters’ feelings.
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A Daffodil and a Thin Place #MuseItUp #DaffodilAndTheThinPlace
I was at St. Nicholas Church, Laindon with Dunton today with my camera. The snowdrops are out and a few of the daffodils are in bloom, so with beautiful blue skies, I just couldn’t resist taking a few photos. 
I must admit to having a soft spot for daffodils – I must have, to have named the eponymous heroine of my ebook after them!
If you’re in the vicinity of Laindon, Essex, why not find Church Hill and visit?
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Sunday Musings for 15th February 2015 – #MuseItUp #DaffodilAndTheThinPlace
Chris had this to say about the Sunday Musings for this week: ‘Now this might be a tad argumentative or controversial but let’s give it a shot: Is social media killing writing?’
Hmm, what do you think? Here’s my reply:
Social media makes it easier to exhibit one’s writing to a world-wide audience. However, now there are more authors than ever displaying their work, so I’m not sure that it helps the average author to make much of an impression on the reading public. From the point of view of authors promoting their writing, therefore, I don’t think social media will make much difference. But since Facebook, Twitter and the like are so addictive, it may be that writers spend more time trawling through them than actually writing which will definitely have a detrimental effect on their work! As in most man-made institutions, social media can be used or abused and I think it may change the way we present our writing or even how we write, for example, 140 character flash fiction on Twitter but I don’t think it has the power to kill writing.
If you’d like to find out what the other Muse It Up authors had to say, click here to go to the blog.
If you’d like to read the ebook ‘Daffodil and the Thin Place’, you can find it here on the Muse it Up Publishing website or on your favourite ebook retailer’s website.
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dawn knox 