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Writing with a Heavy Heart

Using Grief and Loss to Stretch Your Fiction

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Writing with a Heavy Heart

By: Denise Jaden
Narrated by: Laura Jackman
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About this listen

This book explores the stages and outlets of grief and how to implement them into your fiction to create deep, interesting characters and a more engaging plot. Some topics of this book include: grieving before the loss, spiritual matters, and how grief affects different ages, personality types, and genders. Find out how to implement heavy emotional scenes authentically, without crossing over into melodrama. Learn which authors have done this well, and how they did it.

©2012, 2013 Denise Jaden (P)2014 Denise Jaden Communication & Social Skills Emotions Personal Development Words, Language & Grammar Writing & Publishing
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What made the experience of listening to Writing with a Heavy Heart the most enjoyable?

This audio book is 1hr 35minutes long; a big incentive to listen again and again and ... I will.

What was the most interesting aspect of this story? The least interesting?

There wasn't any least interesting aspects. The subject matter is unusual which kept my interest and kept me listening.

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I enjoyed all of the book, it's a fascinating subject; well written and presented.

Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?

I didn't listen to this book in one sitting, but I might next time around.

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I was voluntarily provided this review copy audiobook at no charge by the author.

This was such a good book in explaining how you can make your characters deeper and realistic. The process of grief in writing hadn't been something that I had paid much attention to before, but Denise Jaden shows how you can implement it within a novel both as a plot aid, character development and realistic process of actually grieving in real life. It was incredibly respectful.

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