Eleanor Tatum

Last year a fellow author recommended The Emotion Thesaurus: A Writer’s Guide to Character Expression by Angela Ackerman and Becca Puglisi. Every fiction or at least romantic suspense author should invest. It came to my rescue when drafting and revising Swamp Run and Swamp Secret. They list emotions and suggest both physical and facial situational vocabulary. Also, they sprinkled it with advice, such as “Emotion should always lead to decision making, either good or bad, that will propel the story forward.”

This holiday season we’re often urged to buy something for ourselves. Some laws I obey. Under our tree sits Ackerman and Puglisi. They recently released The Positive Traits Thesaurus: A Writer’s Guide to Character Attributes and The Negative Trait Thesaurus: A Writer’s Guide to Character Flaws. Both have saved my edits on my third book, Swamp Home. We need, or least I do, more Thesaursi.

Enough!