Handy Reference Book - Creating Character Emotions

Creating Character Emotions
- 1998 by Anne Hood. $14.99 US new



(from the back of the book)
In this unique book, Anne Hood will help you find fresh, creative images, words and gestures to evoke feelings in your fiction. In 36 “mini-lessons,” Hood sheds new light on love, hate, fear, grief, guilt, hope, jealousy and other major emotions. Each lesson offers instruction on rendering that particular sentiment; “good” and “bad” examples illustrating how writers have succeeded and where others have gone wrong; and imaginative exercises for putting the feelings into words.

(from the Contents page)
Anger 20
Anxiety 24
Apathy 27
Confusion 31
Contentment 35
Curiosity 39
Desire 43
Despair 47
Excitement 50
Fear 54
Fondness 59
Forgiveness 63
Gratitude 68
Grief 72
Guilt 76
Happiness 80
Hate 84
Hope 88
Hostility 92
Irritation 96
Jealousy 100
Loneliness 104
Longing 108
Love (Parent-child) 112
Love (Romantic) 116
Passion 120
Resignation 123
Restlessness 127
Revenge 131
Sadness 135
Shame 139
Surprise 143
Suspicion 147
Sympathy 151
Tenderness 155
Worry 158