the emotion thesaurus by angela ackerman and becca puglisi

The Emotion Thesaurus, in its easy-to-navigate list format, will inspire you to create stronger, fresher character expressions and engage readers from your first page to your last. Instruction for how to show hidden feelings and emotional subtext through dialogue and nonverbal cues.Advice on what should be done beforedrafting to make sure your characters' emotions will be realistic and consistent.

A breakdown of the biggest emotion-related writing problems and how to overcome them.Body language cues, thoughts, and visceral responses for 130 emotions that cover a range of intensity from mild to severe, providing innumerable options for individualizing a character's reactions.If you need inspiration for creating characters' emotional responses that are personalized and evocative, this ultimate show-don't-tell guide for emotion can help. The Emotion Thesaurus: A Writer's Guide To Character Expression Angela Ackerman 2,710 Paperback 8 offers from 7.14 The Emotional Wound Thesaurus: A Writer's Guide to Psychological Trauma: 6 (Writers Helping Writers Series) Becca Puglisi 1,887 Paperback 15. When showing our characters' feelings, we often use the first idea that comes to mind, and they end up smiling, nodding, and frowning too much. One of the biggest struggles for writers is how to convey emotion to readers in a unique and compelling way. The bestselling Emotion Thesaurus, often hailed as 'the gold standard for writers' and credited with transforming how writers craft emotion, has now been expanded to include 55 new entries! As an author, Becca loves nothing more than coming up with new content for her Writers Helping Writers descriptive thesaurus collection (including the best-selling Emotion Thesaurus: A Writer’s Guide to Character Expression, now an expanded Second Edition), which has sold over half a million copies.

The emotion thesaurus by angela ackerman and becca puglisi