h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Sometimes, on a personal level, I find it really difficult to convey deep feelings without sounding matter of fact or flippant.

Several of my own deeply personal and emotive pieces (upon re-reading) simply fail to convey the love/sorrow/dread/fear of the moment. Even trickier if you're describing a scenario that most people will never find themselves in.

Putting a stranger in your emotional shoes is harder than it looks, even if the Truth is way out there!

That's a really good point. Conveying all those feelings takes patience.

Maybe the next step is to think about techniques for doing just that?

Think about how filmmakers use surroundings as shorthand to indicate a mood - like a wind blowing across an empty landscape might summon up the idea of loneliness.

You can do it with words. It takes breaking the emotions down, though, and layering them in. Ever read 'Jitterbug Perfume'? It's the way perfumes are layered in, with base notes and top notes and such...

Sometimes, just picking one word or phrase to describe things rather than another can change the mood.

Thanks for the suggested books, Dmitri.I can't resist books about or otherwise ocnnected to twain. T.H.l White? "H is for Hawk" eals extendively with his struggles.

I need new title for my bookpile, so I will look them up.

(I'llreturn to your main points later.

I seem to excel at typos.