How does birth order affect whether or not a person gets married? When does mind over matter become a crippling problem? Writer's Guide to Character Traits, 2nd edition answers all of these questions and many others. With more than easy-to-reference lists of traits blended from a variety of behaviors and influences, you'll gain the knowledge you need to create distinctive characters whose personalities correspond to their thoughts and actions - no matter how normal or psychotic they might be.
Linda Edelstein takes you beyond generic personality types and into the depths of the human psyche where you're sure to find the resources you need to make your characters stand out from the crowd.
Engage Your Readers with Emotion While writers might disagree over showing versus telling or plotting versus pantsing, none would argue this: If you want to write strong fiction, you must make your readers feel. The reader's experience must be an emotional journey of its own, one as involving as your characters' struggles, discoveries, and triumphs are for you.
That's where The Emotional Craft of Fiction comes in. Veteran literary agent and expert fiction instructor Donald Maass shows you how to use story to provoke a visceral and emotional experience in readers. The Emotional Craft of Fiction shows you how to make that happen. Provides writing samples and vocabulary appropriate for grades one through six and lists synonyms of various reading levels for hundreds of words.
Karl Iglesias breaks new ground by focusing on the psychology of the reader. Based on his acclaimed classes at UCLA Extension, Writing for Emotional Impact goes beyond the basics and argues that Hollywood is in the emotion-delivery business, selling emotional experiences packaged in movies and TV shows. Iglesias not only encourages you to deliver emtional impact on as many pages as possible, he shows you how, offering hundreds of dramatic techniques to take your writing to the professional level.
Craft books advise you to write 'descriptive sentences'. But how do you do that? With this book. Descriptive Words for Writers: Places is designed to help you write descriptive sentences by giving you the vocabulary you need to evoke the senses sight, sound, smell, touch and taste. Did you just sigh and nod? If so, this handy little booklet is for you!
Sometimes as new or even experienced authors, we can't think of just the right action for our character's body in a particular scene, and we need something to get the creative juices flowing. This is a quick and easy reference tool just for that purpose.
Jam-packed with a list of 1, physical reactions a character can have, organized by body part from head to toe to internal organs, you'll never be left scratching your head when you need to find just the right way to describe your character's reactions!
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Do you have the heebie-jeebies? Are you antsy with iktsuarpok? Or giddy with dpaysement? The Book of Human Emotions is a gleeful, thoughtful collection of feelings, both rare and familiar.
Each has its own story, and reveals the strange forces which shape our rich and varied internal worlds. In reading it, you'll discover feelings you never knew you had like basorexia, the sudden urge to kiss someone , uncover the secret histories of boredom and confidence, and gain unexpected insights into why we feel the way we do. Cancel Delete. Cancel Overwrite Save. Don't wait! Try Yumpu. Start using Yumpu now! Terms of service. Privacy policy. Cookie policy.
Change language. It offers writers a roadmap to creating fresh setting imagery that impacts the story on multiple levels and keeps readers engaged from the first page to the last. Rather than being a simple backdrop against which events unfold, every location has the potential to become a conduit for conveying emotion, characterizing the cast, providing opportunities for deep point of view, and revealing significant backstory.
Compelling fiction starts with characters who have well-crafted layers that make them memorable, relatable, and fascinating. But trying to convey those layers often results in bulky descriptions that cause readers to skim. Occupations, though, can cover a lot of characterization ground, revealing personality traits, abilities, passions, and motivations.
Select a job that packs a powerful punch. The ultimate tool for writers! Whether you're crafting the next great novel or pounding away at a short story, there will come a time in the process when you struggle to describe emotions in your writing.
Each of the emotions in this book are organised by meaning and offer a list of compelling sentences that relate to the emotion you're trying to describe. Filled with over 12, example sentences, this book will quickly become the most essential tool on your desk. This unique visual thesaurus is designed to help writers of all ages to develop their emotional literacy. The book focuses solely upon emotions.
Spanning circa emotional words it is divided into three sections: ranges of emotions offering a visual spectrum to be referred to by writers unsure of the intensity of feelings , synonyms each image has similar images and words underneath it along with a sentence to help a new writer see how it can be embedded into a story , and antonyms - opposite pairs of feelings that are useful when wishing to create contrast in a storyline.
This book will be a vital reference for every classroom and can be used individually or in whole class activities. Ian Long has worked as an artist with children, youth and adults. He has been a youth and children's worker in Gloucestershire, an artist-in-residence in Lambeth and is currently a teacher in a school in Marlborough.
He is married to Jane and enjoys life with their two girls. Ian has illustrated many books for Pip. Inside the Negative Trait Thesaurus you'll find a vast collection of flaws to explore when building a character's personality, advice on building layered and memorable characters from the ground up, an in-depth look at backstory, emotional wounds, and how pain twists a character's view of himself, and his world, influencing behavior and decision making, a flaw-centric exploration of character arc, relationships, motivation, and basic needs, tips on how to best show a character's flaws to readers while avoiding common pitfalls, and downloadable tools to aid writers in character creation.
Upgrade your storytelling! Learning how to show emotions is one skill that writers often struggle with. This unique reference book is jam-packed with emotions and over 14, phrases gathered from hundreds of novels.
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