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Emotions: Bringing Them to the Page through Gestures, Movement, Facial Expressions, and More

Emotions: Bringing Them to the Page through Gestures, Movement, Facial Expressions, and More

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Mary Carroll Moore
Jul 24, 2020
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A client in California emailed me a few weeks ago about film she watched that helped her write emotions more vividly into her memoir.

"As you know all too well," she said, "I don't write emotion--I just can't get the hang of it. Yesterday I had the best lesson I could imagine when I watched the 2008 animated movie Wall-E. In the first half of the movie …

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