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  • Writing for Emotional Impact

  • Advanced Dramatic Techniques to Attract, Engage, and Fascinate the Reader from Beginning to End
  • By: Karl Iglesias
  • Narrated by: Karl Iglesias
  • Length: 9 hrs and 57 mins
  • 5.0 out of 5 stars (6 ratings)

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Writing for Emotional Impact

By: Karl Iglesias
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Publisher's Summary

There are three kinds of feelings when reading a story: boredom, interest, and wow! To become a successful writer, you must create the wow feeling on as many pages as possible, and this requires writing that engages the reader emotionally.

In his best-selling book, screenwriter Karl Iglesias explored the working habits of A-list Hollywood scribes. Now, he breaks new ground by focusing on the psychology of the reader.

Based on his acclaimed classes at UCLA Extension, Writing for Emotional Impact goes beyond the basics and argues that Hollywood is in the emotion-delivery business, selling emotional experiences packaged in movies and TV shows.

Karl not only encourages you to deliver emotional impact on as many pages as possible, he shows you how, offering you hundreds of dramatic techniques to take your writing to the professional level.

In this audiobook, you will learn:

  • Over 40 techniques to humanize a character for instant empathy
  • The seven essential storytelling emotions
  • Over 70 techniques to create them
  • Over 50 ways to craft powerful scenes, including the emotional palette
  • Over 30 techniques to shape your words and energize your narrative description
  • The most common dialogue flaws and fixes for each
  • Over 60 techniques to craft dynamic dialogue that snaps, crackles, and pops off the page

Not only does Karl Iglesias "get" emotion, but he also shares insider secrets for moving the reader from tears to laughter and everywhere in between.

Praise for the book:

"This is a must-have book for every screenwriter, director, and producer." (Rosa Graham, president of Find the Funny)

"Reading Writing for Emotional Impact will shake up your world. This is the book that tears through the clutter so that you can write from the heart." (Michael Lent, author of Breakfast with Sharks and co-producer of Hard Scrambled)

©2011 Karl Iglesias (P)2020 IFH Books

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Clear. Comprehensive. Brilliant.

I have gone through this content 4 times, each time learning something new. In 2020 alone, I've read 17 books on this subject. Not one of the others has even come close to the depth of information, the clarity of "what is good writing" or the techniques you can use to improve your own skills. My writing skill and knowledge on how to proceed is lifted ten fold. Highly recommend.

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Great info. So hard to listen to.

Get a professional to read your book. I didn’t download this for a workshop horrible narration killed the enjoyment of listening.

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