R.F. Kuang teaches her students to write emotions without naming the emotion itself: "Emotions are not these abstract concepts that are applied to the body. All feelings are is how your body is reacting to some piece of information." "We did this exercise where I passed out these kindergarten level silhouette diagrams of the human body. Suppose you just got a call and you got a promotion. Tell me where that sits in the body. Describe only what is happening on a physical level." "About half the people in the class were like, when I get a piece of really good news, I am immediately scared about, like, when is the other shoe going to drop?" "You have a much more interesting puddle of feelings, multiple feelings that are going on at once that is so much more interesting to read about than just Bob got the call, that he was promoted, and he felt great. That gives the reader nothing."