When you choose a character’s job with care you gain a way to show-not-tell their personality, skills, interests, priorities, beliefs, and more. Plus, you can use it to generate conflict, provide a route to goals and dreams, and showcase key relationships. If you need a guide to finding and describing the perfect job for your character that will further the story, this is it!

ISBN: 978-0-9992963-7-0
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Your favorite character personality brainstorming guides bundled together and beautifully cross-linked for quick searching between volumes. Find out why so many writers keep this powerful duo close at hand when they plan characters. Available in ePub, Mobi, and PDF. $9.99

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Do your characters smile, frown, sign, or shiver too much? Are their hearts always racing, their breath rushing, or worse, they stand there, doing nothing at all? It’s okay, you aren’t alone. Writing powerful, fresh emotional description can be a challenge…or rather it used to be before The Emotion Thesaurus came along. This bestselling guide helps you break free from tired description and telling by providing you with lists of body language, thoughts, visceral sensations, vocal cues (and more!) for 130 unique emotions. Get ready to master show-don’t-tell.

ISBN: 978-0-9992963-4-9
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Are you a collector? Information and purchasing options for the first edition of The Emotion Thesaurus can be found here.

For characters to come across as authentic, they need a past, the same as you or me. And, like us, part of their history includes painful experiences known as emotional wounds which generate fears, insecurities, trust issues, and make it difficult for them to take risks when it matters most. This guide will lead you to specific types of trauma (and the dysfunctional behaviors tied to them) so you can choose what your character’s vulnerability is, what it will look like on the page, and develop a character arc where they overcome the past…or succumb to it.

ISBN: 978-0-9897725-9-4
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One of the most powerful storytelling elements is your setting…but are you using it as well as you should? This guide not only lists sensory details for over 100 natural and personal settings, it provides options for conflict in each location and shows you how to build mood, steer the plot, and apply symbolism for deeper, more meaningful scenes.

ISBN: 978-0-9897725-5-6
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Is your setting description pulling its weight in the story, or is it just sort of…there? Do more with your settings, activating their power to characterize the story’s cast, deepen emotional moments, deliver backstory without info dumps, and more. This guide does all this and more, in addition to providing you with lists of sensory description for over 120 modern locations.

ISBN: 978-0-9897725-6-3
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Every character has good qualities, even the bad guy. Attributes help your characters come alive on the page by revealing their identity, showing readers how they treat other people, and giving them a moral compass to live by. This guide does a deep dive on 100 positive traits to help you brainstorm unique combinations of strengths to help your characters bend the story to their will and win reader’s hearts.

ISBN: 978-0-9897725-1-8
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Ready to explore your character’s dark side? Protagonist, antagonist, or someone in between—all characters have negative qualities that mess up their relationships, keep them from achievement, and stymie internal growth. This thesaurus digs into over 100 character flaws, how to show them through dysfunctional behavior and attitudes, and provides ideas on how they will cause problems in the story.

ISBN:978-0-9897725-0-1
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If you know and love The Emotion Thesaurus, you’ll be happy to know that this companion ebooklet brings you more great ways to describe your character’s emotional state by amplifying their reactions using common states of being. Whether your character is hungry, bored, cold or stuck in the thrall of attraction, their emotions are amped, meaning they are more likely to make missteps and mistakes. And that means conflict and raised stakes! This guide contains all the body language, expressions, thoughts, viscerals, and more to help you amplify your character’s feelings. Available as an ebook and PDF.

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