Great characters aren’t built from a single element. They’re shaped by emotions, personality traits, fears, past wounds, goals, and the roles they play in their world.
That’s why our character-focused thesaurus guides are designed to work together. Each guide helps you understand your character’s layers from a different angle, helping you craft someone who authentic, memorable, and who thinks, acts, and behaves in a way that is human and true.
If you need help building characters readers will love (or hate!), now’s a great time to pick up a writing guide for your collection at Amazon.
June 25th Amazon Deal of the Day ($1.49 in US and Canada)
The Emotion Thesaurus: A Writer’s Guide to Character Emotion eBook
Give readers a front row seat to your character’s feelings. This guide spans 130 emotions and lists the expressions, body language, thoughts, cues, and more for each, helping you show (not tell) what your characters are experiencing.
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The Positive Trait Thesaurus: A Writer’s Guide to Character Attributes eBook
Craft characters with likeable attributes that help them navigate their world and achieve meaningful goals. This guide covers 99 positive traits and the behaviors, attitudes, and choices that best align with each so characters think, act, and behave in ways that align with their personality. Each entry includes examples of characters from fiction and film with the same trait.
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The Negative Trait Thesaurus: A Writer’s Guide to Character Flaws eBook
Compelling characters need weaknesses, blind spots, and internal struggles to be realistic and human. This guide covers 106 negative traits so you can choose specific shortcomings for a character that will trip them up in the story. Show readers how certain dysfunctional behaviors and attitudes cause friction, lead to rash decisions, and push them to change if they are to succeed in the story. You’ll find plenty of examples from fiction and film to inspire you.
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The Emotional Wound Thesaurus: A Writer’s Guide to Psychological Trauma eBook
The past shapes who we become, and it will do the same for characters. This book helps you understand how painful experiences leave lasting emotional scars that influence a character’s fears, beliefs, relationships, and choices. With 118 types of painful backstory events that list common behaviors and fallout, you can write deeply personal struggles so readers understand and empathize with your characters, and root for them to move forward in a healthier way.
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The Fear Thesaurus: A writer’s Guide to What Holds Characters Back eBook
Fear is often the hidden force driving a character’s behavior, whether they like it or not. This guide explores 80+ different deep fears and how they cause specific insecurities, struggles, and patterns of avoidance. Learn how to show how fear shapes what your character does, chooses, and risks…and most importantly, the ways it can hold them back and keep them trapped in their comfort zone if they don’t challenge it.
The Occupation Thesaurus: A Writer’s Guide to Jobs, Vocations, and Careers eBook
Choose careers that do more than tick a box in your character’s profile. The work a person does can show much about who they are–priorities, personality traits, skills, and more–so a job should be chosen with care. This guide dives into the specifics of 124 jobs so you can write them with authority, including the challenges and struggles that will add realism to your character’s daily life and further the story.
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These books offer up ideas as you write, making it much easier to write authentic choices, behaviors, and struggles that are true to life. We hope you’ll check them out. (This flash sale at Amazon is only for a few days, and the kindle deal of the day is only on the 25th (EST) in the US and Canada. Happy saving!)
