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“Pain is part of being alive, and we need to learn that. Pain does not last forever, nor is it necessarily unbearable, and we need to be taught that.” – Rabbi Harold Kushner

Though emotional writing is often equated to expressive writing or writing therapy, emotional writing is essential to telling your life stories.

One of the vital components of Reflective Writing Therapy, emotional writing will make your readers emotionally vested in your writing, keeping their attention until the end of the story.

Readers–regardless of background or life experiences–will always relate to one thing: human emotion. Anger, sadness, joy, disgust has never escaped any of us; and if you can capture the rawness of emotions, your writing will translate to people of different backgrounds.

Tips for Emotional Writing

1. Capture how you felt. While the art of descriptive writing relies on sight, sound, taste, etc., emotional writing relies on the conveyance of realistic and relatable feelings.
2. Practice meditative writing. Think of Free Writing with a Topical twist. Simply free write on a particular emotional scene you would like to include in your piece, you will be amazed at the words that flow onto the page.
3. Peruse your journal. Emotional writing to infuse into your literature could be as easy as rereading your journal entries. Borrow the emotions from different experiences that may be applicable to a newly written experience.

Spend five minutes free writing about each of the following emotions:

Pain

Anger

Joy