When was the last time you lost language? And… how do you feel? The one time it feels like I'm losing language is when I let myself feel what I really feel. (We're talking about weeping, wailing, keening—the dripping-nose ugly cry.)

I've been thinking a lot about emotions and language because I've just made a new course available, The Grammar of Show Don't Tell: Exploring the Emotional Depths. It's a love letter to my young writing self, who had no idea how to put 'show don't tell' into my writing practice.

In designing the course, I discovered the ways that writers grammatically shape their characters' emotions. I look specifically at fear, envy, grief, love at first sight, sensuality and rage.

In this episode we explore sorrow as a felt experience with a grammatical shape. (Ugly crying entirely optional.)

The story I read in Episode 92 is 'Death of a grammarian'.

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