Feelings come from our reactions to life happenings, so our job as a writer is to focus on those life happenings in our writing.
Your directive is to avoid using the word at all, other than in your title. Dear ______, or To _______. You are imitating "To Mockery:" (because I'm arrogant!) because it was a poem that came exactly from this type of writing exercise.
Think about these things as you write:
- No emotions named!
- Craft actions/situations that represent the emotion, instead.
- Create images of the emotion through those actions
- Create a metaphorical (don't use cliches…) image that stands in for the emotion.
- Use internal thoughts that people have when in a situation that causes a certain emotion.
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