Becca Puglisi – författare

THE EMOTIONAL WOUND THESAURUS explores over 100 different backstory events that, through fear and dysfunction, can send a character’s life off-course until a need for fulfillment forces them to strive for inner growth and overcome the past.

THE EMOTION THESAURUS (Volume 2) is an expanded version of the original. Now with over 130 entries and enhanced instructive front matter, this ultimate show-don’t-tell tool helps writers navigate the difficult terrain of character emotion by listing the body language, internal sensations, actions, and thoughts associated with a multitude of feelings.

The bestselling Negative and Positive Trait Thesauruses have now been combined into one convenient book: The Character Trait Boxed Set. This digital file contains the original two volumes in their entirety, including the instructive how-to content and thesaurus entries-over 200 personality traits in total. Thanks to embedded hyperlinks, writers can move from entry to entry with ease and view conflicting traits with the click of a button. Take your characterization skills to the next level and provide readers with the fresh, memorable characters they crave!

What if you could fast-track the reader’s understanding of a character without chunky paragraphs of description that kill the story’s pace? And what if you could use a common element of daily life to explore story goals, relationships, themes, and even the character’s internal growth? You can. It’s time to activate the power of your character’s occupation. Whether a character loves or hates what they do, a job can reveal many things about them, including their priorities, beliefs, desires, and needs. The Occupation Thesaurus will show you how a career choice can characterize, drive the plot, infuse scenes with conflict, and get readers on the character’s side through the relatable pressures, responsibilities, and stakes inherent with work.

The Conflict Thesaurus: A Writer’s Guide to Obstacles, Adversaries, and Inner Struggles (Volume 2) explores more ways to activate story conflict and tension. It serves up over 110 new scenarios that lead to power struggles, lost advantages, dangers, threats, ego-related conflicts, and more. Use this guide to plot fresh challenges and story problems that will trip your characters up and force them to strive harder to win.

This second edition of Emotion Amplifiers teaches you to use conditions and states—pain, arousal, dehydration, addiction, etc.— that will make it difficult for a character to emotionally self-regulate, setting them up for overreactions, misjudgments, and (hopefully) colossal mistakes they’ll have to fix and learn from. Use these 52 amplifiers to force them to face their errors, acknowledge their true feelings, and work through the contradictions at the heart of every inner struggle.