I have been working on my own personal writing recently. Even though I\u2019m a copyeditor, I\u2019m always seeking ways to strengthen my own writing, particularly in the overarching story and character areas, where I don\u2019t get that same amount of practice from editing other people\u2019s manuscripts. A clean draft is nice, but an impactful one is even better. My particular goal at the moment is to make my stories more emotionally resonant.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
To that end, I bought a new book that I\u2019ve found to be immensely helpful. If you want to make your stories more emotionally resonant, your characters more real, then I highly recommend\u00a0The Emotional Wound Thesaurus: A Writer’s Guide to Psychological Trauma<\/em><\/a>*\u00a0by Angela Ackerman and Becca Puglisi.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I\u2019d heard about Ackerman and Puglisi\u2019s\u00a0Writers Helping Writers<\/a>*\u00a0series before, but I hadn\u2019t kept up with them until recently, and I didn\u2019t know there were so many of them now. The Emotional Wound Thesaurus<\/em> in particular has helped me dig far down into my characters\u2019 psyches and realise some very important changes and additions I need to make to several of my in-progress manuscripts to make them hit the reader harder in the \u2018feels\u2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Knowing what has hurt a character, what drives them, and how to trigger those shadows of the past through the events and themes of the story to bring everything together into a healing experience for the character and a cathartic one for the reader will make your story stand out amongst others in which the character does things because the plot needs them to.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The Emotional Wound Thesaurus <\/em>doesn\u2019t just list emotional wounds: it shows you how to thread those wounds together, express them realistically, and weave a tight, impactful story.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 10\/10, would recommend<\/p>\n\n\n\n I\u2019m on the lookout for new self-published clients, particularly those who write fantasy, sci fi, or romance. If you\u2019re looking for a copyeditor to tidy your manuscript before publication, please see my Fiction editing<\/a> page.<\/p>\n\n\n\n *affiliate links<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" To make your stories more emotionally resonant I recommend\u00a0The Emotional Wound Thesaurus: A Writer’s Guide to Psychological Trauma\u00a0by Angela Ackerman and Becca Puglisi<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":209,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-recommendations","category-tips-tricks"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\tOpen for editing<\/h3>\n\n\n\n