27.01.2023

“The Writer’s Guide to Vivid Settings and Characters: An Amazing Descriptive Thesaurus on Writing Description” by S.A. Soule (Fiction Writing Tools, older 2016 edition)

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"Learn Fun and Creative Ways to Enhance Your Descriptions! The advice, tools, and reference lists in this guidebook will inspire writers to create original and vibrant depictions of characters, locations, weather, and mood that can greatly enhance anyone’s storytelling, whether you’re writing adult, young adult, or children’s fiction. Fictional and real settings are much more effective, dramatic, and evocative when they’re visible, auditory, olfactory, and tactile. Character depictions are much more imaginative, lifelike, and vivid for readers when a character has intriguing physical qualities and distinctive, memorable features. Each chapter provides practical tools to make writing descriptions and crafting lifelike characters simple and fun, with plenty of examples to highlight each point. This valuable reference book offers writers simplified...>>

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27.01.2023

“The Writer’s Guide to Character Expression: Enhance Any Story With Realistic Emotional Responses and Facial Expressions” by S.A. Soule (Fiction Writing Tools, older 2016 edition)

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"Learn to Improve Emotional Descriptions, Create Believable Settings, and Craft Powerful Descriptive Writing. This guidebook is a companion to the first volume in the Fiction Writing Tools series, The Writer's Guide to Character Emotion on descriptive writing and expands on this vast topic. Within this in-depth guide are practical tools on how to apply descriptive writing to create realistic settings, visceral responses, and lifelike characters. Included are lists and advice on: Setting Descriptors Character Personality Traits Descriptive Writing Authentic Facial Expressions Expression/Emotion Thesaurus Characterization & Voice No matter what genre you write, this resource of endless inspiration on writing...>>

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27.01.2023

“The Writer’s Guide to Character Emotion: 2022 Updated Edition. Revolutionary Handbook on How to Use Deep POV” by S.A. Soule (Fiction Writing Tools)

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"Most writers struggle with creating a captivating story. The fastest way to improve your writing skills is by applying the "Deep Point-of-View" technique, which can transform any novel from mediocre storytelling into riveting prose. This guide includes hundreds of amazing ways to use "show don’t tell" to submerge readers so deeply into a scene they will experience the story along with the characters. Plus, this useful guide includes a Thesaurus with inspiring word choices! Writers will learn to: Revise Shallow Writing Deepen Characterization Craft Realistic Visceral Reactions Improve Showing vs. Telling Create Lifelike Character Expressions In this handbook, S. A. Soule...>>

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26.01.2023

“Zen Comics” by Ioanna Salajan

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"Comics communicate the Zen spirit perfectly. Laughter deflates pretension and a good rap on the head sometimes transcends so-called logic. In the words of Zen, "Nothing is left for you but to laugh!"...>>

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26.01.2023

“Dragged Into the Light: Truthers, Reptilians, Super Soldiers, and Death Inside an Online Cult” by Tony Russo

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"Ohio housewife Sherry Shriner grew to prominence as a social media cult leader, flourishing in the era of conspiracy theories and the 9/11 Truther movement. She preached the virtues of mysterious orgone energy and Christian prayer as defensive shields against the forces of darkness, including Lucifer and his demons; reptilian shape-shifters masquerading as human elites; the New World Order; cell phone towers; even hostile UFOs that flamed out over her home, visible only as shooting stars. Amazingly, she built a coterie of passionate devotees. The more outrageous the lie, the more fervent their belief. In 2017, she told follower Steven Mineo that his girlfriend, Barbara Rogers, was a witch who would kill him. A month later, Steven...>>

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