How many ways can you think of to express your character’s anxiety? His happiness? Her anger?
Does your antagonist always look behind him? Does your hero clench his fists every time? Does your heroine’s mouth flatten over and over?
A traditional thesaurus may not help when you want to describe the actions and reactions of your characters in different ways. What you need is the Emotion Thesaurus, brainchild of The Bookshelf Muse bloggers Angela Ackerman and Becca Puglisi.
It’s awesome!
Not only do they have lists of ideas for showing a character’s emotion through action, they have thesauri for Settings, Weather, Colors and Textures, and Character Traits.
This is writerly gold.
I've gotten to the point where I just leave the site open in my browser when I'm writing. Bookmark it now and you'll thank me later.
Got any great resources up your fingerless mittens? Please share!
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