Workshop
Dramatizing the Emotion 'Fear'
$15
Bring your characters’ emotions to life. Learn the nuances fear, how it is manifested, and how to write it into your characters’ experience.
Barbara Vance
Instructor
10
lessons
1h 20m
video runtime
1
download
Course Description
Learning the nuances of how and why people experience emotions is one of the best things we can do as a writer. What makes good writing is specificity and subtlety. That means we need to focus on a given emotion, turning it around and seeing it from different angles so we can write three-dimensional characters that resonate with readers.
We are all afraid of different things for different reasons, and we all manifest that fear internally and externally in different ways. This workshop will help you consider how each of your characters uniquely demonstrates this essential emotion.
I cannot stress enough the importance of workshops like this. Once you are ready to start writing, this information is what will help you really bring your story to life.
This workshop addresses:
- The kinds of fears a person can have so you write nuanced responses
- Origins of fears so you can build backstory
- How different circumstances result in different fear responses
- The many ways people manifest fear
- How people overcome fear
This course includes
- An class outline to follow along with the video lessons
- Extensive worksheets that help you design nuanced fears and manifestations of that emotion for all of your characters.
- Course readings from literature to follow along with the lessons
Students have course access for 365 days. All worksheets and notes are downloadable.
What's Inside
This workshop includes class notes so you can follow along with the video lectures and worksheets to help you articulate and plan each characters’ fear responses.
Course Content
What People Are Saying
“Barbara’s classes are almost always fantastic. I advise these all of the way. I have a lot of fears, and all of them have reasons. I loved how she talked about the characters being like that, because almost everything a person thinks or feels has a reason. Thank you, Barbara, for this class, and I hope to see more of your classes later.”
Aurora
Student
“Your classes are always so incredibly helpful. It’s truly amazing to have all these things you are vaguely aware of being put into words and then to have so much more added to that.”
Karin
Student
“A lot to think about. I enjoyed the class. Thanks for putting it together… Just another note, for me writing fear in my story is my greatest challenge, and so far I’ve failed miserably, so this course is a great help to me.”
Carney
Student
“Enjoyed the class. Barbara’s excellent lessons helped stir up my thoughts on the relationship of anger and its effect on the body.”
Bill
Student
“This course will put you in the right mindset for writing a novel.”
Kris
Student
“awesome class!!”
Sam
Student
Barbara Vance, PhD
I am a writer and instructor who has been blessed to help thousands of writers bring their stories to life.
My degrees include a B.A. in literature, an MA in Literature and Creative Writing, and a PhD in storytelling and media. Prior to launching my own company, I taught writing and storytelling at a tier-one university.
Over the past sixteen years I have developed a widely acclaimed collection of courses designed to help writers develop their stories, stay on track, and finish what they start . . . even while juggling busy careers and a family.
I am also the author of a multi-award-winning poetry collection, and my poems are licensed for use in anthologies and curricula around the world.
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