The Emotion Thesaurus: A Writers Guide To Character Expression by Angela Ackerman and Becca Puglisi has been such a fantastic tool for me. It's helped me time and time again with prompts for all sorts of emotions as well as a reference guide for emotions themselves.
For example, I might find myself thinking "my character is feeling a sort of longing". I'll flip open their handy guide and voila, there it is.
For each emotional response they breakdown the definition, physical signals ("Feverish, over-bright eyes"), internal sensations ("racing heartbeat"), mental responses, ("a willingness to do anything"), cues of acute or long term response ("crying, sobbing, wailing"), may escalate to (listing of other emotions), cues of suppressed emotion and writers tips.
This has been instrumental for both writing tips as well as building correct emotional responses to a given situation and I highly recommend it for any writer.
5/5 stars
For example, I might find myself thinking "my character is feeling a sort of longing". I'll flip open their handy guide and voila, there it is.
For each emotional response they breakdown the definition, physical signals ("Feverish, over-bright eyes"), internal sensations ("racing heartbeat"), mental responses, ("a willingness to do anything"), cues of acute or long term response ("crying, sobbing, wailing"), may escalate to (listing of other emotions), cues of suppressed emotion and writers tips.
This has been instrumental for both writing tips as well as building correct emotional responses to a given situation and I highly recommend it for any writer.
5/5 stars
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