The Emotion Amplifier Thesaurus A Writer’s Guide to Character Stress and Volatility (Second Edition)

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English | ISBN: 1736152335 | 2024 | 212 pages | PDF | 4 MB
Welcome to the 2nd edition of Emotion Amplifiers-expanded, updated, and now available in paperback and ebook!

Characters who are in control of their emotions rarely slip up, which makes for boring reading. To avoid that pitfall, channel your dark side and introduce stress that will make it harder for them to think clearly. Your weapon of choice? An amplifier. Pain, arousal, dehydration-conditions and states like these make it difficult for a character to emotionally self-regulate, setting them up for overreactions, misjudgments, and (hopefully) colossal mistakes they’ll have to fix and learn from.
Inside The Emotion Amplifier Thesaurus, you’ll find:
A deep dive into cognitive and emotional dissonance and how psychological discomfort steers a character’s reasoning and impacts their ability to make decisions
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