It’s great because I get to step outside of that box of using the same five responses to a certain emotion and start really thinking about, what can a character do instead to show that they are feeling this, rather than me using adverbs or his adrenaline pumped fifty gazillion times. How I use this information: I love this book so hardcore, it’s so helpful with internalizing. gives cues of suppression (ie cues of suppressed rage) gives ‘may escalate to _’ and directs you to other emotions gives cues of acute or long-term impacts of the emotion gives mental responses (ie fight or flight) gives internal sensations (aka, blood pounding in the ears, dry throat, adrenaline rush) gives physical signs and signals (ie chara may look pale, might fidget, etc) How I use this information: IMAGERY IMAGERY IMAGERY gives list of people you might expect to find at said location gives you possible sources of conflict (ie at a ‘hotel’ you might have noisy neighbors) gives examples of textures and sensations (ie at an ‘antique shop’ you may encounter chipped paint, distressed wood, etc) gives a whole lot of examples of sights, smells, tastes, and sounds Urban Setting Thesaurus & Rural Setting Thesaurus Also, I get help building a potential backstory because I get a framework of which to think, why is the character this way? Well, awesome, I have a little guide to help me think through the character’s possible motivations. Man, I just can’t decide what they WOULD do. gives traits that, when combined with this one, might cause conflictĬhara building, or when I get stuck on what I want a character to do. talks about how the chara might overcome it gives examples of well known chara’s that have this trait gives positive aspects of the trait, as well as negative gives you examples of the chara’s thought process gives you a list of other behaviors the chara might have gives you possible causes of WHY the character might have this trait gives you similar flaws also found in the book gives you a definition of said negative trait Negative Trait Thesaurus & Positive Trait Thesaurus I’ll do my best to lay out the five that I have and if you are interested, hop on over to Amazon and buy these suckers up because they are AMAZING I have NEVER used a writing resource more than I use these. They all follow the same format as the pictures I’ve shown above, so you get one detailed page of descriptions followed by tons of more in-depth, thought provoking concepts. Each of these is so freaking helpful, I can’t even convey.
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