S41E7 – Writing Emotions: Guilty and Apologetic
“You still blush too easily when confronted,” Jasnah noted.
“I’m sorry.”
“And apologize too easily as well.”
“I’m… uh, indignant?”
– The Stormlight Archive
Writing Roots
S41E6 – Writing Emotions: Smugness
I’m being extremely clever up here, and there’s no one to stand around looking impressed. What’s the point in having you all? – Doctor Who
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S41E5 – Writing Emotion: Vengeance
I don’t know who you are. I don’t know what you want. If you are looking for ransom I can tell you I don’t have money, but what I do have are a very particular set of skills. Skills I have acquired over a very long career. Skills that make me a nightmare for people like you. If you let my daughter go now that’ll be the end of it. I will not look for you, I will not pursue you, but if you don’t, I will look for you, I will find you and I will kill you. – Taken
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S41E4 – Writing Emotions: Physical Pain
Westley: To the pain means the first thing you will lose will be your feet below the ankles. Then your hands at the wrists. Next your nose.
Prince Humperdinck: And then my tongue I suppose, I killed you too quickly the last time. A mistake I don’t mean to duplicate tonight.
Westley: I wasn’t finished. The next thing you will lose will be your left eye followed by your right.
Prince Humperdinck: And then my ears, I understand let’s get on with it.
Westley: WRONG. Your ears you keep and I’ll tell you why. So that every shriek of every child at seeing your hideousness will be yours to cherish. Every babe that weeps at your approach, every woman who cries out, “Dear God! What is that thing,” will echo in your perfect ears. That is what “to the pain means.” It means I leave you in anguish, wallowing in freakish misery forever. – The Princess Bride
S41E3 – Writing Emotions: Terror and Horror
Nobody knows what a boggart looks like when he is alone, but when I let him out, he will immediately become whatever each of us most fears. This means that we have a huge advantage over the boggart before we begin. – Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
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S41E2 – Writing Emotions: Courage
Peter did not feel very brave; indeed, he felt he was going to be sick. But that made no difference to what he had to do. – C.S. Lewis; The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe
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S41E1 – Writing Emotions: Reverence
The wealth of this world isn’t in the ground, it’s all around us. The Na’vi know that and they are fighting to defend it. If you want to share this world with them, you need to understand them. – Avatar
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S40E8 – The Post-Launch Mindset
Launching a new book is kind of scary; you spend such a long time alone with your characters, and then, in one sudden moment, they’re running wild into the hands of strangers. – Nanette L. Avery
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S40 Bonus – Crafting a Book Blurb with Jessie of Book Blurb Magic
Question any thinking person as to why he ‘never reads novels’, and you will usually find that, at bottom, it is because of the disgusting tripe that is written by the blurb-reviewers. – George Orwell
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S40E7 – The Pre-Launch Mindset
There’s a lot more to publishing a book than writing it and slapping a cover on it. – Vince Flynn
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