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Source: https://writers.stackexchange.com/a/44974
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Source: https://writers.stackexchange.com/a/44974
License name: CC BY-SA 3.0
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I'll add to the already good answers:

> effective ways to describe fear, doubt, exhaustion, love...

There are a lot of writing guides out there, some more general, some more specific. Some bad, some good. I'll tell you about my experience with a book called "the Emotion-Thesaurus" that a friend gifted to me and I'm using (even if not consistently).

As the title implies, it's a dictionary for emotions (Love, Anger, Despair ...). Each one gets two pages with useful informations, such as **external cues** , **internal cues** , **effects of prolonged exposure** , **related emotions** and so on. So it's a pratical guide to make your writing more vivid.

In my experience, I'm used to show certain emotions in a certain way. One of my characters bites her lips when she's feeling uncertain. Yet I can't use it too much, and I can't apply it to everyone, so the thesaurus comes in handy: other characters may show uncertainty by averting their gaze, stuttering, pausing for some time ...

So this may be a resource worth checking. Consider that it's not something you're supposed to read from start to end (I suppose it would be extremely boring, trying to read a dictionary). It's as good as you're willing to open it up each time you want to give more depht to a given emotion.

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