Today I’m reviewing The Emotion Thesaurus on my book blog, Found Between the Covers. I hope you’ll join me there to finish reading this review.
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The Emotion Thesaurus: A Writer’s Guide to Character Expression
by Angela Ackerman & Becca Puglisi
Published by: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Publication Date: May 6, 2012
Genre: Nonfiction
Source: Authors
One of the biggest problem areas for writers is conveying a character’s emotions to the reader in a unique, compelling way. This book comes to the rescue by highlighting 75 emotions and listing the possible body language cues, thoughts, and visceral responses for each. Using its easy-to-navigate list format, readers can draw inspiration from character cues that range in intensity to match any emotional moment. The Emotion Thesaurus also tackles common emotion-related writing problems and provides methods to overcome them. This writing tool encourages writers to show, not tell emotion and is a creative brainstorming resource for any fiction project.(Image: The Bookshelf Muse; Synopsis: Amazon.com)
My Thoughts:
The Emotion Thesaurusis an important writing resource for anyone preparing written materials for a book, newspaper column, magazine article, blog post, and yes, even a book review, if that written piece includes references to persons and their emotions.
I became familiar with the work of Angela Ackerman and Becca Puglisi at The Bookshelf Muse by way of an online search for writing tools and resources. The Bookshelf Muse is Angela and Becca’s brainchild and a rich resource for writers of all genre. It was on their blog that I discovered The Emotion Thesaurus. If you’re not familiar with The Bookshelf Muse or The Emotion Thesaurus, please follow one of the links provided.
(Read the rest of the review here . . .)
This book, in my opinion, is a must have for writers.
Joan, I agree!
Reblogged this on Wyndy Dee.
Wyndy, thanks for the reblog! You’re the best.
thanks for the tip. I constantly google body language for my peep, that show don’t tell thing is a strong motivator!
Always happy to pass along good tips!
Again Sherrey, thanks so much for the lovely review. So kind of you to give us a shout out! 🙂
Angela
Mutual support and encouragement is what we writers are all about!
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