{"id":206,"date":"2022-03-16T13:15:26","date_gmt":"2022-03-16T00:15:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/centauripublishing.com\/centauripublishing\/?p=206"},"modified":"2022-03-16T13:15:43","modified_gmt":"2022-03-16T00:15:43","slug":"get-the-emotional-wound-thesaurus-to-make-your-characters-shine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/centauripublishing.com\/centauripublishing\/get-the-emotional-wound-thesaurus-to-make-your-characters-shine\/","title":{"rendered":"Get The Emotional Wound Thesaurus to make your characters shine"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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

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Open for editing<\/h3>\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

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*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_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":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/centauripublishing.com\/centauripublishing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/TheEmotionalWoundThesaurus.png?fit=770%2C499&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/centauripublishing.com\/centauripublishing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/centauripublishing.com\/centauripublishing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/centauripublishing.com\/centauripublishing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centauripublishing.com\/centauripublishing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centauripublishing.com\/centauripublishing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=206"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/centauripublishing.com\/centauripublishing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":212,"href":"https:\/\/centauripublishing.com\/centauripublishing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206\/revisions\/212"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centauripublishing.com\/centauripublishing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/centauripublishing.com\/centauripublishing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centauripublishing.com\/centauripublishing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centauripublishing.com\/centauripublishing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}