The Emotion Thesaurus
A Writer's Guide to Character Expression
A Writer's Guide to Character Expression
"One of the biggest problem areas for writers is conveying emotion to the reader in a unique, compelling way. When showing our characters' feelings, we often grab onto the first idea that comes to mind, and our characters end up smiling, shrugging, nodding, and frowning far too much. Need some inspiration to get you beyond the basics? Inside The Emotion Thesaurus, you'll find: emotion entires that list body language, thoughts, and visceral responses for each, a breakdown of the biggest emotion-related writing problems and how to overcome them, body language and action cues that address both acute and suppressed forms of emotion, suggestions for each emotion that cover a range of intensity, from mild to extreme, description tips on emotion, dialogue, characters, and setting. Now expanded to include 55 new entries"--
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A solid book. Kicks off with some concrete and succinct advice and then becomes a valuable reference book. I bought it looking for more handholding than it gives, but it's really geared to be a reference versus a huge book of examples. Which is probably more valuable long term. This is an excellent resource. I suspect it will be quite dogeared in no time.
Four stars cuz ... well, I only give five stars to certain rare books, or books that mean something exceptional to me. Depending on how much I use this over time, I can see it becoming a five-star book.
