This document discusses how to add feelings and emotions to writing to engage readers. It advises showing, rather than telling, how characters feel by describing their actions and behaviors. Using examples from the emotions in Inside Out, it suggests ways each emotion might respond in different situations, such as Joy dancing happily after winning the lottery or Sadness crying from her lost pet. The purpose is to help readers understand characters and their stories by experiencing their emotions rather than just being told about them.

1. Adding Feelings in Our
Writing!
Brought to you by the emotions from Inside Out

2. Why add feelings?
• So your reader can understand
what is happening with the
characters in your story.
• They help the readers stay
engaged with your story.
• They help the reader
understand the problem and
the solution in your story.

3. So how do we add
feelings into our story?
Let’s ask the emotions and find out…

4. Joy
• Situation: Joy finds out she
won the lottery!
• Boring sentence: “I felt happy I
won the lottery!”
• Instead, what would Joy be
doing to show she’s happy?

5. Sadness
• Situation: Sadness find out her
pet cat ran away.
• Boring sentence: “I felt sad that
my cat ran away.”
• Instead, what would Sadness
do to show she was unhappy?

6. Anger
• Situation: Anger had to stay
inside and do chores on a
beautiful Saturday.
• Boring sentence: “I’m so mad I
have to do chores today!”
• Instead, what would Anger do
to show he was angry?

7. Fear
• Situation: Fear saw a ferocious,
hungry bear standing three feet
in front of him!
• Boring sentence: “I’m so
scared of this bear!”
• Instead, what would Fear be
doing to show he was afraid?

8. Disgust
• Situation: Disgust smelled
three week old garbage that
Joy forgot to take out (again).
• Boring sentence: “That
garbage is disgusting!”
• Instead, what would disgust do
to show she was disgusted?

9. Remember, show (don’t tell) your
characters’ feelings and emotions!
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