If anyone has any ideas or suggestions, I would be grateful and appreciative. Hi, Hugh. This page contains links to the various places it can be bought, including Indiebound, which will show you any independent bookstores near you that carry our book.
Please let us know if you have any trouble. Have a great week! Mostly I concentrate on good plots. Thanks for what you do.
In the Negative Trait Thesaurus, Appendix A: Needs and Lies, the Associated Needs and Lies would be souch easier to view, understand and internalize if the information was s into 2 columns.
That way the Need and the Lie the dicotomoy would be visually laid out side by side, instead of 6 or 16 lines later. Thanks for the feedback, Patricia. We are always interested in what will make our books better.
Has there been any thought about a book on similes? I am anxiously awaiting the new thesaurus coming in June, but coming up with a powerful or even a simple simile sometimes becomes taxing. It could be an add-on to what you already have on this site. Are you planning on doing one on physical motion and movement? It would be helpful in my editing if I were able to describe characters movements in a variety of ways.
I like to add a depth to my characters by giving them movement. For example, a regular thesaurus tells me alternate words for walk is: march, parade, step, and so on. Question: I have purchased the Emotion Thesaurus and find it very useful. Will you be publishing the other Thesauruses in hardback? The guests commentators on your site offer really great input.
I look forward to seeing Writers Helping Writers pop up on my computer. Thank you. Hi, Joanne. Those are available in print and digital copies; you can find distribution sites on our Bookstore page. The Setting Thesaurus is the next collection that will be turned into book form. That will have two volumes also Urban and Rural settings , and those are due out in late spring. Please let us know if you have any other questions.
Happy writing! Dearest Becca: First of all, thank you for this outstanding site. I bought the book about Positive traits and I love it. However I have a hard time trying to describe old, creaking, wooden floor, and all the words that I think of, do not fit in. How would you describe this type of floor in an abandoned house?
You have to watch out because the floors are uneven, you may fall, etc, etc…. Hi, Julio. As far as describing the old wooden floor, I would focus on words that show how it sounds and feels. His toes stub the uneven edges of the warped boards. He slides his feet across the rough boards, feeling the spots where the finish has worn off. The sound of the boards creaking is loud in the dark. I hope this helps! Thank you so much!
This is a gold mine here…food for thought and composition. So much hard work to benefit writers. This is an amazing legacy. Most grateful! I would describe the thought process of wanting something and then the fears. Like taking steps forward, then stpping, reversing direction, that sort of thing.
Or making a decision, and then reversing the decision. I would try to describe the melody be how it makes the listener feel. Give it an emotion component. Especially for those who are on the road, having no way to connect to the internet, or just not wanting to actually be on the internet at that given time due to whatever given reasons. Such as getting easily distracted and whatnot. I can just come back and forth with looking all of this up on here!
Hi, DJ. So yes and no :. Some is better than none! The description for smells is extensive, but I will try to narrow it down to a shorter version of what I was thinking. It would combine a lot of what you already have, but I think it would help writers become more rich in their story telling.
I am not as good a writer as others I have not been doing it long. I must admit I am guilty of not taking the time or attention to identify smells, I have been trying to remember to do it in different situations, but those who are a lot like me that do not smell as well as others do.
I compensate by adding verbs to smells, kind of like bringing them to a little bit of life, such as waft, surround, wrap, assault etc…. Like others when I hear sounds, smell things or feel specific feelings they will spark or trigger memories which in turn elicit emotions, connect smells with emotions.
Sometimes smells will cause images to form in my mind, sometimes they are not even related to the smell, I am sure I am not the only one who does this. I can try to put together something for you, but it will take a while, smells are the most difficult thing to do, but I cannot do it alone. I can see how something like this would be helpful. We will add this one to the list of possibilities and see what happens :. Thanks so much for your input, Chellie!
Becca, I hate to ask for more as you already have so much wonderful information here. Smell, taste, touch, sight, sound. But it would be so helpful eyes cast heavenward in supplication. Oops, sorry for the flying body parts.
Whatever you want to put in book form I will buy and be thankful for. And I really appreciate your emails. I save most of your columns on my hard drive so I can use them at any time. And thanks so much for your kind words. I teach a nonfiction picture book class and at the beginning of each class, your books are must haves for every aspiring writer.
Have you considered doing your other thesauruses settings, colors, etc in an ebook format? Even for a nominal fee? It would be so worth it to me and I am sure to many others as well. Hi, Kristen! Thanks so much for promoting our books through your nonfiction picture book class. People like you are doing the heavy lifting for us when it comes to marketing our books, and Angela and I really appreciate it!
We talk quite a bit about which thesauri to turn into books. Some have been better received than others and we feel they would sell well as books. Others, not so much. Some of them, honestly, we may never publish in book form. Thanks again for your support and feedback.
Hey guys, I recently purchased all your thesaurus collection, and I would like to know witch one should I start with? Thanks so much for buying the books! The Emotion Thesaurus contains a lot of in-depth information about the importance of showing instead of telling; while it focuses mostly on how to show character emotion, the techniques shared can be applied to any of the descriptive writing in your story. Best of luck! This is so awesome! You are an answer to prayer.
Thank you, I am looking forward to them and I will purchase them. Bids and tenders Uncategorised Report writing Psychology and linguistics Reader-centred writing Online and social media Technology Punctuation Podcast Technical writing Spellings Presentations and speeches News from Emphasis Jargon International issues Customer relations Letters and CVs Numbers and finance 9.
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Check spelling and grammar in Office and later. What happened to English Assistance? If, for example, your document is in French and you want synonyms, do this: In Word , click Research options in the Research task pane, and then under Reference Books , select the thesaurus options that you want.
Click here to choose a different Office program. Click the word in your workbook that you want to look up. On the Review tab, click Thesaurus. To use one of the words in the list of results or to search for more words, do one of the following: To replace your selected word with one of the words from the list, point to it, click the down arrow, then click Insert.
To look up additional related words, click a word in the list of results. If, for example, your workbook is in French and you want synonyms, do this: In Excel , click Research options in the Research task pane, and then under Reference Books , select the thesaurus options that you want.
Select the word in your notebook that you want to look up. Click the word in your Outlook item that you want to look up. If, for example, your text is in French and you want synonyms, do this: In Outlook , click Research options in the Research task pane, and then under Reference Books , select the thesaurus options that you want.
Click the word in your presentation that you want to look up. If, for example, your document is in French and you want synonyms, do this: In PowerPoint , click Research options in the Research task pane, and then under Reference Books , select the thesaurus options that you want. Click the word in your publication that you want to look up.
Click the word in your diagram that you want to look up. If, for example, your diagram is in French and you want synonyms, do this: In Visio , click Research options in the Research task pane, and then under Reference Books , select the thesaurus options that you want. Need more help? Expand your skills. Get new features first. A subscription to make the most of your time.
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