Paul R. Drewfs's Reviews > The Emotion Thesaurus: A Writer's Guide to Character Expression

Picture me dancing with abandon around the late night campfire like a Johnny on the spot gold rich prospector. Yessiree, life’s been pretty damned good up to now, but it just went antimatter fueled supernovae. How so; my copy of the Emotion Thesaurus; a Writers Guide to Character Expression by Angela Ackerman and Becca Puglisi came by big brown is beautiful truck. Fearing the tome fool’s gold, I leapt right into her and took her out for a test drive: leaving my socks and shoes smoking on the carpet. Bottom line gas wrangles; buy this crazy cool book; it’ll set your stories free and make your characters roll over and kick up their feet like peyote pumped Gila monsters. http://tinyurl.com/7uryoaj

Over the last twelve years I have cobbled up various proto-versions of The Emotion Thesaurus. I desperately needed a user friendly writing tool like this. So, I kept trying to glean one from the available physiological and psychological literature on the fly. Ackerman and Publisi's work make my hasty home grown versions look pathetic. Why; because the available literature is an inconsistent verbose mess. I was final editing my work in progress when The Emotion Thesaurus arrived yesterday afternoon. I read the brief how-to front matter and started testing the thesaurus on what I thought should be final text. All at once emotional weaknesses reared their ugly head in the paragraphs. The book provided the quick look me ups that I needed to mentally trigger the fixes. I just kept going with that book aided tear and repair. Trust me, this thesaurus provides the ingredients needed to help the novice, becoming gas wrangler, and established writer transform their pages from superficial show and tells to reader endearing be-spellings.