New (Old) Ways of Evoking Emotion and Imagery in Your Writing
Lesson 3 of "Take It from Shakespeare" with Jo Gatford
This week, we're going to explore how to create vivid, evocative, heartbreaking and soul-affirming emotion in our work — Shakey-style.
In today’s lesson:
Stylistic choices for emotional impact - choppy sentences, repetition, etc.
Create weird metaphors that somehow make perfect sense (like why jealousy is obviously "green")
Simple words that hit hard and how a tiny sentence can deliver biiiiig feelings
When to break the rules and why you should