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Becca Puglisi

Angela Ackerman

THE EMOTION THESAURUS (Volume 2) is an expanded version of the original. Now with over 130 entries and enhanced instructive front matter, this ultimate show-don’t-tell tool helps writers navigate the difficult terrain of character emotion by listing the body language, internal sensations, actions, and thoughts associated with a multitude of feelings.

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The Emotion Thesaurus (Second Edition): A Writer's Guide to Character Expression

THE NEGATIVE TRAIT THESAURUS digs into over 100 personality flaws and the dysfunctional behavior and biases associated with each. It’s a robust database of weaknesses that can hold characters back and provide them with an internal challenge that must be defeated in order to achieve the story goal.

The Negative Trait Thesaurus: A Writer's Guide to Character Flaws

THE POSITIVE TRAIT THESAURUS contains in-depth profiles of almost 100 positive attributes that fit into moral, achievement, identity, and interaction categories, helping writers build complex and memorable characters who can withstand life’s fallout.

The Positive Trait Thesaurus: A Writer's Guide to Character Attributes

THE RURAL SETTING THESAURUS breaks down over 100 natural and personal settings to shows writers how sensory detail can evoke mood, steer emotion, and create conflict, thereby forcing characters to strive harder for their goals.

The Rural Setting Thesaurus: A Writer's Guide to Personal and Natural Places

THE URBAN SETTING THESAURUS lists sensory descriptions for 120 urban locations that can be used to steer the plot, characterize the story’s cast, and even trigger the reader’s own emotional memories

The Urban Setting Thesaurus: A Writer's Guide to City Spaces

What if you could fast-track the reader’s understanding of a character without chunky paragraphs of description that kill the story’s pace? And what if you could use a common element of daily life to explore story goals, relationships, themes, and even the character’s internal growth? You can. It’s time to activate the power of your character’s occupation. Whether a character loves or hates what they do, a job can reveal many things about them, including their priorities, beliefs, desires, and needs. The Occupation Thesaurus will show you how a career choice can characterize, drive the plot, infuse scenes with conflict, and get readers on the character’s side through the relatable pressures, responsibilities, and stakes inherent with work.

The Occupation Thesaurus: A Writer's Guide to Jobs, Vocations, and Careers

Physical obstacles, adversaries, moral dilemmas, deep-seated doubts and personal struggles…conflict keeps the plot fresh, challenges characters as they traverse their arc, builds tension and high stakes, and most importantly, keeps readers emotionally invested from beginning to end. Volume One of The Conflict Thesaurus is the guide you need to write intense and satisfying fiction readers won’t forget.

The Conflict Thesaurus: A Writer's Guide to Obstacles, Adversaries, and Inner Struggles (Volume 1)

The Conflict Thesaurus: A Writer’s Guide to Obstacles, Adversaries, and Inner Struggles (Volume 2) explores more ways to activate story conflict and tension. It serves up over 110 new scenarios that lead to power struggles, lost advantages, dangers, threats, ego-related conflicts, and more. Use this guide to plot fresh challenges and story problems that will trip your characters up and force them to strive harder to win.

The Conflict Thesaurus: A Writer's Guide to Obstacles, Adversaries, and Inner Struggles (Volume 2)

This second edition of Emotion Amplifiers teaches you to use conditions and states—pain, arousal, dehydration, addiction, etc.— that will make it difficult for a character to emotionally self-regulate, setting them up for overreactions, misjudgments, and (hopefully) colossal mistakes they’ll have to fix and learn from. Use these 52 amplifiers to force them to face their errors, acknowledge their true feelings, and work through the contradictions at the heart of every inner struggle.