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How to Write About Strong Emotions in Your Memoir
No need to stress. You got this!
Are you challenged by the idea of writing about strong emotions?
A common reflective technique to help someone consider how that they feel after an emotional event is called, “Sad, mad, glad.”
But often those three words aren’t enough to describe how you really feel.
There just seem to be more to your feelings than that.
More depth, more pain, more love, more anger.
And let’s be honest here. You wouldn’t be writing a memoir if you hadn’t experienced and overcome something challenging, something highly emotional.
Memoir readers identify immediately with strong emotions. Readers want to know how events and situations and actions made you FEEL.
Writing a memoir is all about sharing emotions, and that’s a tough thing for a lot of us to do.
Let’s jump right into one of the strongest feelings that can affect us: ANGER
We can be angry at a person, an event, a situation, and even at ourselves. And often when we feel angry we make bad decisions and say things that can never be taken back.
