Where's the Love? Huh? Where's the Love?

Whenever I circle back around to emotions, which is often, I’m still struck by the numbers of emotions and how many Positive ones seem to be lacking. If the list has 10, you can bet that seven of those are going to be negative experiences.

Here are some reasons this shows up so often — and might give you some ideas on how to change or switch up some expressions.

The imbalance between positive and negative emotions in these lists can be attributed to various psychological, evolutionary, and cultural factors. Here's a detailed exploration of why this is the case:

Bringing it To Your Story

I just came from a conversation which brought up a peeve of mine. This Be a good reader, to be a good writer. I want to assure you, that if you don't know what you are looking for, you're not going to suddenly recognize it from reading. Not from any author worthy of study. Because right now, you don't know enough to ask the question -- which isn't a slight. Not at all. Here are couple of examples of techniques being used which are going to slip under the radar. But maybe they will spark enough in your writer's mind to figure out a few others.