How to Describe Mood Swings
example, sadness differs from boredom, or pity, or loneliness, or nervousness – do much, much better at managing the ups and downs of ordinary existence than those who see everything in black and white.
Susan David • Emotional Agility
Move your attention beyond the part that you immediately focused on. This is especially easy and helpful with music—Visions of Johanna and You Oughta Know both feature spectacular bass parts that you might under-notice if you’re focusing on the attention-grabbing lead vocal
Sasha Chapin • How to Like Everything More
These charged emotions, powerful when expressed in the work, are the same dark clouds that beg to be numbed to allow sleep or to get out of bed and face the day in the morning. It’s a blessing and a curse.
Rick Rubin • The Creative Act: A Way of Being
She described her song “Bad Guy” as “yellow, but also red, and the number seven. It’s not hot, but warm, like an oven. And it smells like cookies.”
There are two major ways a character can change: their opinions and feelings can shift, or their circumstances can. Or both.
Charlie Jane Anders • Never Say You Can't Survive: How to Get Through Hard Times by Making Up Stories
When I say something faintly off-kilter or boundary-pushing... Let’s not call it boundary pushing . Let’s call it boundary stretching . When I stretch a boundary, I’m just trying to give us all more territory to roam around in.