Tale Foundry

Mood vs. Tone (They're Different) (2020x12)

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One of things we writers try to do with our writing is control emotion. Not just the big, dramatic motions, but that lingering, ambient background emotion as well. But that's a really weird, nebulous territory to approach. At the very least, it helps to know where your emotion as writer ends, and where the emotional response of the audience begins.