The Emotion Tapestry: A Model For Authors

4 essential questions weave an array of character motivations

It is a kind of common “wisdom” that emotions are solely the domain of the irrational, and are to be greeted with the warmth you would greet a cockroach in your kitchen.

Emotions, it is often felt, are just neurons in the brain being overcharged. Perhaps the result of an over-attentive mother, an under-attentive father, or just a particular kind of inna…