Writing fiction is not an intellectual exercise. One of the keys to creating powerful fiction is to evoke emotion in your writing. You want your writing to create an emotional response in the reader.

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We often receive requests from members for exercises that can help them improve specific aspects of their writing. The most crucial element of any successful sitcom or comedy drama is its characters.

For decades, physician and author Silke Heimes has been leading groups in therapeutic exercises to put thoughts and feelings down on paper. Heimes, a professor of journalism at Darmstadt University of ...