Sooner or later, every screenwriter and prose writer faces the same problem: how to express human feelings so that the reader believes them. Angela Ackermann and Beka Pulizi—experienced authors familiar with this difficulty firsthand—gathered and organized 130 emotions, creating a convenient reference point for those who build complex, contradictory, and living characters.
In addition to the thesaurus, the book also includes a compact training section with practical techniques for describing emotions using the principle “show, don’t tell.”
“Thesaurus of Emotions” also explains why subtext, dialogue, and backstory are important, helps you match and combine different feelings, and offers ideas for creative exploration.
The audiobook includes two noticeably different parts. The first is a methodological section with recommendations on writing craft and working with emotional descriptions. The second is an expanded dictionary of emotions: a list of concepts with explanations and tips for conveying them.
This audiobook will be useful both to professional screenwriters and writers, and to those who are only beginning to try their hand at writing.