New (Old) Ways of Evoking Emotion and Imagery in Your Writing

Lesson 3 of "Take It from Shakespeare" with Jo Gatford

cool as hell art by Mariam Chagelishvili

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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