The emotion thesaurus a writer's guide to character expression

"One of the biggest problem areas for writers is conveying emotion to the reader in a unique, compelling way. When showing our characters' feelings, we often grab onto the first idea that comes to mind, and our characters end up smiling, shrugging, nodding, and frowning far too much. Need some inspiration to get you beyond the basics? Inside The Emotion Thesaurus, you'll find: emotion entires that list body language, thoughts, and visceral responses for each, a breakdown of the biggest emotion-related writing problems and how to overcome them, body language and action cues that address both acute and suppressed forms of emotion, suggestions for each emotion that cover a range of intensity, from mild to extreme, description tips on emotion, dialogue, characters, and setting. Now expanded to include 55 new entries"--

Introduction -- The power of emotion -- Character research: what to know to write authentic emotion -- Using dialogue to write emotion -- Subtext: what lies beneath -- Additional ideas for brainstorming fresh emotion -- Common problems with writing nonverbal emotion -- Using the emotion thesaurus -- The emotion thesaurus -- Recommended reading -- Praise for these writers helping writers resources -- emotion amplifiers -- One stop for writers.