Releases May 13th, 2024!
What began as a small ebooklet companion to the popular Emotion Thesaurus is now an expanded second edition. Inside you’ll find fifty-two states and conditions with the power to amplify a character’s feelings. You’ll learn how to deploy them to create friction and conflict. You’ll explore how to showcase the physical, cognitive, and psychological strain they cause. You’ll also discover how emotion amplifiers can destabilize a character’s equilibrium during important story moments.
Readers relate to and connect with characters in psychological distress because personal vulnerability is part of the human experience. This guide shows you new ways to bring readers in close as you cause trouble for your characters, pushing them onto shaky emotional ground when it most benefits your story.
Amplifiers explored in this guide:
** Sample entries
ADDICTION
AROUSAL
ATTRACTION
BEING STUCK
BEREAVEMENT
BOREDOM
BRAINWASHING
BURNOUT
CHRONIC PAIN
**COGNITIVE BIAS
COGNITIVE DECLINE
COLD
COMPETITION
COMPULSION
CONFINEMENT
DANGER
DECEPTION
DEHYDRATION
DISTRACTION
EXHAUSTION
HANGOVER
HORMONAL IMBALANCE
HUNGER
HYPERACTIVITY
HYPNOTIZED
ILLNESS
INDECISION
INJURY
INSTABILITY
INTOXICATION
ISOLATION
LETHARGY
MALNUTRITION
MENTAL HEALTH CONDITION
MORTAL PERIL
**PAIN
PANIC ATTACK
PHYSICAL DISORIENTATION
PHYSICAL HEALTH CONDITION
POSSESSION
PREGNANCY
PRESSURE
PSYCHOSIS
PUBERTY
SCRUTINY
SENSORY OVERLOAD
SLEEP DEPRIVATION
STRESS
SUBSTANCE WITHDRAWAL
TORTURE
TRAUMA
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