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Extraordinary Emotions!
There are only so many ways a writer can show her characters expressing happiness, anger, love, curiosity, disappointment...well, you get the idea.
While revising my middle grade WIP, I have attempted to be more creative in my word choices with regard to my characters' emotions.
The Emotion Thesaurus: A Writer's Guide To Character Expression, by Angela Ackerman & Becca Puglisi has proven to be of immense value when tackling this challenge. The authors host
The Bookshelf Muse, an award-winning online resource for writers, and they are both members of the SCBWI. If you have not yet purchased a copy of this valuable guide, I would highly recommend it. It helped open my eyes to new ways of revealing my characters!
What reference books do you use in your descriptive writing efforts?
