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Mastering Emotional Honesty with Lee Kofman
Welcome!
Introduction
Meet Your Teacher (2:43)
Emotional Honesty in Writing
Introduction
Honesty As An Artistic Mission
Moral Outrage
Exercise: Overcoming Moralising
The Storms Within Us
Your Teacher: Exposing My Internal Contradiction
Exercise: Arguing with Yourself on the Page
Sentimentality and Nostalgia
Exercise: Avoiding Sentimentality and Nostalgia
Finding Your Subject and Voice
Introduction
Urgency
Exercise: Looking for Urgency
Subject or Subjects?
Your Teacher: How I Chose a Writing Subject For All The Wrong Reasons
Discomfort and the Need to Understand
Exercise: Finding a Question
Finding Your Voice
Know Your Worldview
Know Yourself
Exercise: Consider How Your Self Shapes Your Voice
Exercise: Sounding Like Yourself
Your Unique Vocabulary
Exercise: Your Vocabulary
Tools for Developing An Honest Voice
Exercise: Free-flow Writing
Writing Emotionally Honest Characters
Introduction
Why Emotional Honesty is Compelling
A Checklist for Creating Authentic Characters
Exercise: Creating Compelling Characters
Describing Emotions
Your Teacher: My Example of Emotional Complexity
Emotional Complexity
Exercise: Describing Shades of Emotions
Abstract Feelings, Concrete Examples
Exercise: Attaching Concrete Details to Emotions
Articulating Undefined Feelings and Mental Processes
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Articulating Undefined Feelings and Mental Processes
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