Scott Andrews

This course realigned my approach to writing fiction. Instead of relying solely on tools such as setting, description, and plot points, which always resulted in static characters and vague stories, I can now work from the inside out: what is this character's emotional makeup and how will this story shake Read more

This class was an eye-opening experience for me. Eliciting emotions in my readers was always this mysterious thing that just happened from time to time. With the tools I learned in the course it is no longer a mystery. I loved how concrete all the techniques were and how thorough Read more

Emotional Truth offered the most thorough, concentrated education on the craft of portraying (and invoking!) emotion that I've found to date. As with many Odyssey courses, the class was not easy, but was 100% worth it. Scott was an accessible and responsive instructor, and the homework he assigned deepened my Read more

It's hard to be a successful writer unless you can get readers to care about what you write. That's what this class is all about, and I think it will level up my ability to tell a good story. I especially appreciated how this class focused on what's useful to Read more

Intense. Revelatory. Transformative. When it comes to emotions in fiction, Scott Andrews is a forensic scientist. Get ready to learn skills that will forever change the way you think of portraying emotion in your work. This is money well spent; probably the best writing class I've ever taken. And I've Read more

Whenever I've caused my readers to feel strong emotions in my fiction, it's been by accident. I couldn't figure out how to add emotion on purpose to my stories to make the readers feel what I wanted them to feel. Emotional Truth provided those guidelines, from sentence-level considerations to the Read more