Sunday, September 2, 2018

creative writing - Describing an important emotional turmoil in the character's life I've never been through


I have this young character who grows up to be very strong and powerful but while he was young he was still discovering how strong he was.


This incident happened to a friend he's protective of. When he was beating up the people who attacked his friend, he almost killed one of them by breaking his rib cage. I wanted this to be a moment in his story that would later on make him always hold back in a fight. But I don't know what this would feel like.


In general, how do you write an authentic emotional experience for a character if you've never experienced it yourself?





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