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  1. The emotion thesaurus
    a writer's guide to character expression
    Published: 2019
    Publisher:  Writers Helping Writers, [Place of publication not identified]

    Introduction -- The power of emotion -- Character research: what to know to write authentic emotion -- Using dialogue to write emotion -- Subtext: what lies beneath -- Additional ideas for brainstorming fresh emotion -- Common problems with writing... more

    Universitätsbibliothek Würzburg
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    Introduction -- The power of emotion -- Character research: what to know to write authentic emotion -- Using dialogue to write emotion -- Subtext: what lies beneath -- Additional ideas for brainstorming fresh emotion -- Common problems with writing nonverbal emotion -- Using the emotion thesaurus -- The emotion thesaurus -- Recommended reading -- Praise for these writers helping writers resources -- emotion amplifiers -- One stop for writers "One of the biggest problem areas for writers is conveying emotion to the reader in a unique, compelling way. When showing our characters' feelings, we often grab onto the first idea that comes to mind, and our characters end up smiling, shrugging, nodding, and frowning far too much. Need some inspiration to get you beyond the basics? Inside The Emotion Thesaurus, you'll find: emotion entires that list body language, thoughts, and visceral responses for each, a breakdown of the biggest emotion-related writing problems and how to overcome them, body language and action cues that address both acute and suppressed forms of emotion, suggestions for each emotion that cover a range of intensity, from mild to extreme, description tips on emotion, dialogue, characters, and setting. Now expanded to include 55 new entries

     

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  2. Views from the loft
    a portable writer's workshop
    Published: 2010
    Publisher:  Milkweed Editions, Minneapolis, MN

    Teachers, exercises, mentors, critiques, humor, and inspiration: these form the fuel all writers need when they get down to work every day. For decades the Loft Literary Center has provided this fuel to an enormous community of writers. Views from... more

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    Teachers, exercises, mentors, critiques, humor, and inspiration: these form the fuel all writers need when they get down to work every day. For decades the Loft Literary Center has provided this fuel to an enormous community of writers. Views from the Loft brings together the collected wisdom of that community - its authors, students, and editors - giving anyone the tools and inspiration necessary to thrive in the writing life. A who's who of writers on writing ranging from the National Book Award-winning poet Mark Doty to Newbery medal-winning children's author Kate DiCamillo, and touching on

     

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9781571313232
    Edition: 1st ed
    Subjects: Writing; Authorship; Authorship; Writing ; Handbooks, manuals, etc; Electronic books
    Scope: Online-Ressource (341 p)
    Notes:

    A Who's who of writers on writing

    Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web

    Dedication; Table of Contents; Introduction; Teaching; Comes a Pony; Deborah Keenan; Michael Collier; Turning "Real Life" into Fiction; Why We Should Writeabout Things That Disappear; Tess Gallagher; Balancing Subtletyand Sledgehammers; Cuddling up with the Self-Censor; Negotiating the Boundariesbetween Catharsis and Literature; Fiction, Nonfiction, and the Woods; Tesoros; Guarding Voice; Writing; In Favor of Uncertainty; Working from Experience; Twenty-fivein an InfiniteSeries of Numbers; A Mentor's Wordsand Words on Her Words; The Poem Behind the Poem; Claiming Breath

    Letting the Poem or Picture Book OutGot Them Poetry Blues?; A Few Cranky Paragraphson Form and Content; Toward a Metaphor of Translation; Some Notes on Negative Capability; Naming Names; A Recipe for Illusion; Nicole Helget; Critique; The Sad Epiphany Poem; A Tall White Pine; On Poetry; Ted Kooser; The Memoir as Literature; Power and Powerlessness; Children's Literature; Writing for the World; Is There Life after Elegy?; Confessions of a First Novelist; Lorna Landvik; What's Fiction Got to Do with It?; Leslie Adrienne Miller; The Writing of Deadfall in Berlin; Michael Cunningham; Memoir

    Editing the ViewTen Questions I've Been Askedabout Picture Books; Why YA?; A View from a Slam; On Tour; The Book Group Phenomenon; Why I Write Fiction; Grace Paley; Dorianne Laux; Writing about the Mysteries of Life; Another Poet Gone to Prose; The Making of Sense; Theories; Travel Writing and the Specter of Transience; Open Discovery in the Art of Creative Nonfiction; Voyeur in the House of Performance Art; Journal Writing; Up-NorthLiterary Life; Reading the Open Book; Afterword; The Loft; Contributors; Acknowledgments; The Loft Literary Center; Supporting Members; Milkweed Editions;

  3. The emotion thesaurus
    a writer's guide to character expression
    Published: 2019
    Publisher:  Writers Helping Writers, [Place of publication not identified]

    Introduction -- The power of emotion -- Character research: what to know to write authentic emotion -- Using dialogue to write emotion -- Subtext: what lies beneath -- Additional ideas for brainstorming fresh emotion -- Common problems with writing... more

    Universitätsbibliothek Greifswald
    310/EC 2260 A182(2)
    Unlimited inter-library loan, copies and loan
    Hochschule für Wirtschaft und Umwelt Nürtingen-Geislingen, Fakultätsbibliothek Nürtingen-Braike
    kuth 12.5/10
    Unlimited inter-library loan, copies and loan

     

    Introduction -- The power of emotion -- Character research: what to know to write authentic emotion -- Using dialogue to write emotion -- Subtext: what lies beneath -- Additional ideas for brainstorming fresh emotion -- Common problems with writing nonverbal emotion -- Using the emotion thesaurus -- The emotion thesaurus -- Recommended reading -- Praise for these writers helping writers resources -- emotion amplifiers -- One stop for writers. "One of the biggest problem areas for writers is conveying emotion to the reader in a unique, compelling way. When showing our characters' feelings, we often grab onto the first idea that comes to mind, and our characters end up smiling, shrugging, nodding, and frowning far too much. Need some inspiration to get you beyond the basics? Inside The Emotion Thesaurus, you'll find: emotion entires that list body language, thoughts, and visceral responses for each, a breakdown of the biggest emotion-related writing problems and how to overcome them, body language and action cues that address both acute and suppressed forms of emotion, suggestions for each emotion that cover a range of intensity, from mild to extreme, description tips on emotion, dialogue, characters, and setting. Now expanded to include 55 new entries"--

     

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 9780999296349; 0999296345
    Edition: Second edition
    Subjects: Fiction; Fiction; Creative writing; English language; English language; Emotions in literature; Emotions in literature; Creative writing; English language ; Rhetoric; English language ; Style; Fiction ; Authorship; Fiction ; Technique; Fiktion; Kreatives Schreiben; Schreiben; Gefühl; Writing ; Handbooks, manuals, etc; Literature; Literature
    Scope: 292 Seiten, 26 cm
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    Includes bibliographical references

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