The Writer's Comfort Levels ~ PART 17 ~ "Disgust"

The Writer's Comfort Levels

PART 17

"Disgust"

BLOG SESSION

February 14th, 2018

We are back for our regularly Scheduled Blog Session about our 17th emotion, which is "Disgust" as it relates to The Writer's Comfort Levels.

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Journal Notes

Whenever you are working on the personalities of the various characters in your stories, then you are well aware of the various feelings and emotions that come into play.  Each character in your story will of course have their own background.  The life of each of your characters is compiled of events, situations, circumstances, difficulties, people, family members, friends, co-workers, life problems, and in some cases tragedies and deep hurts.  Please make a special note that "feelings" and "emotions" always come into view.

As you develop your characters, consider their life story.  What have they been through in life thus far, and how have the events in their life affected them?  What kind of emotional state are they in?  What type of feelings are they harboring?

Writer's Exercise for Today

Take a moment to think about your life.  For today's exercise, please make a note of your feelings today in relation to the state of your life.  In your Journal, write today's date and our Session title:  "The Writer's Comfort Levels" ~ Part 17 ~ "Disgust".

Now, after writing down how you are honestly feeling today, take a second to just list the various emotions you are feeling.  As a point of reference, We have covered sixteen (16) emotions prior to today's Blog Session.  To review all twenty-one emotions that we are covering, click here.  Any number of the emotions listed may be exactly what you are feeling today.

After listing all of the emotions that you may be feeling today, just simply take a second to think on a time when you have personally felt the emotion of disgust.

Disgust is a feeling of revulsion or profound disapproval aroused by something unpleasant or offensive.

Other words that bring to mind the feeling of "disgust" are...

revulsion

repugnance

aversion

distaste

distasteful

abhorrence

loathing

detestation

odium

execration

horror

nausea

yuck factor

disrelish

repellence

repellency

revolt

repel

sicken

nauseate

squick

gross

outrage

shock

horrify

appall

scandalize

offend

affront

dismay

displease

dissatisfy

annoy

anger

nauseate

turn someone's stomach

make someone want to throw up

make shudder

cause to feel nauseous

make someone's gorge rise

be repugnant to

be repulsed by

turn off

Please Note:  All of the above listed words are in the same emotional area of our emotion for today, which is "disgust".

Revisiting the emotion of "disgust"

After you have written down in your Journal about the time when you felt the feeling of "disgust", sit with that feeling for about five minutes.  Run the actual incident through you mind that brought the emotion of "disgust" to the forefront.

Now, imagine that you are creating a character who has to exhibit the feeling of "disgust" in your story.  Write a sample paragraph for the sake of practice.  You may find it helpful to create a character that is actually telling the story through your own eyes.  Descriptive of what you felt when you had the emotion of "disgust" running through your veins, you will find it easy to write.  You'll also find it easy to build a story around this one character that you are creating and writing a paragraph about.

We have four (4) more emotions to cover after this Blog Session.  Those four emotions are as follows...

18)  Shock

19)  Kindness

20)  introversion (personality)

21)  extroversion (personality)

We'll be back for another great Blog Session tomorrow!

OUR NEXT BLOG SESSION:

The Writer's Comfort Levels

PART 18

"Shock"

Peace, Love & Light

By René Allen

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