The question of “showing” sadness continued to plague me last night. Then I thought that maybe “showing” sadness is not the right way to approach this, at least for me. For writers who can show sadness, call me. Let’s chat. I want to pick your brain. It occurred to me that perhaps instead of showing sadness I …
In the latest piece I showed to my critique group, I was particularly concerned that a section was melodramatic. Not only over the top emotion, but over the top of only one emotion. One of my critique partners said that on one hand, it didn’t seem melodramatic, but on the other hand, much of the …