Browse or search specific emotions for insight into how to write emotionally gripping story moments
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Amazement
- Writing Emotion: Amazement (Yesterday)
Apprehension
- Writing Emotion: Apprehension (The Graveyard Book)
Connection
- Writing Emotion: Connection (The Good Place)
Contentment
- Writing Emotion: Contentment (A Million Junes)
Delight
- Writing Emotion: Delight (E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial)
Discovery
- Writing Emotion: Discovery (New Girl)
Dread
- Writing Emotion: Dread (Book Lovers)
Frustration
- Writing Emotion: Frustration (You've Got Mail)
Heartbreak
- Writing Emotion: Heartbreak (Stranger Things)
Impatience
- Writing Emotion: Impatience (Wild is the Witch)
Indignation
- Writing Emotion: Indignation (The Inheritance Games)
Insecurity
Insight
Joy
- Writing Emotion: Joy (The Young Victoria)
Outrage
- Writing Emotion: Outrage (A Sprinkle of Sorcery)
Stress
- Writing Emotion: Stress (Take a Hint, Dani Brown)
Self-Pity
- Writing Emotion: Self-Pity (Mrs. Dalloway)
Unease
- Writing Emotion: Unease (How to Use Suspense) (Once Upon a Time in...Hollywood)
Unsettledness
- Writing Emotion: Unsettledness (Bunny)