Want more emotion in your fiction and less drama pinning down the draft?
If you are a fiction writer and haven’t ever used Angela Ackerman’s and Becca Puglisi’s writing thesauri, you might be really missing out. You know that feeling of holding two things in your head at the same time? These books are serious headache prevention. (Trust me, I’m an epidemiologist. 🙂 I’ve written about the thesauri […]
A Mini-M.F.A. in the Psychology of Character
How do you know what your hero is capable of? A modernistic St. Martin cuts his cloak in half to share with a poor man. Mainz, Germany. Craft books like The Negative Trait Thesaurus and The Positive Trait Thesaurus can help you build strong characters.
The Reverse Backstory Tool Brings Your Characters to Life
This character is walking right off this building into a story. Statue on the front of the Gutenberg Museum in Mainz, Germany. © Laurel Decher, 2016. Reverse Backstory Tool Angela Ackerman’s and Becca Puglisi’s Reverse Backstory Tool in THE NEGATIVE TRAIT THESAURUS is the perfect way to jumpstart a new story or re-animate a faded […]