The Emotion Thesaurus: A Writer's Guide to Character Expression

Any screenwriter and novelist knows how difficult it is to describe a person's emotions. Angela Ackerman and Becca Puglisi, authors of long experience and experience, have faced this problem many times themselves and decided to help writers: in their book they have researched and systematized 130 different emotions and offered a unique navigator through the world of constructing controversial, credible and impressive characters and characters. In addition to the dictionary, they have produced a compact teaching material that provides a recipe for literary description of emotions on the principle of "don't name it, show it." In addition, The Emotion Thesaurus addresses the important role of subtext, dialogue, and backstory, helps relate different emotions to one another, and provides food and reason for creative brainstorming.