Becca Puglisi – Why Your Characters Keep Shrugging (And How to Fix It with The Emotion Thesaurus)
About this episode
Becca Puglisi discusses the importance of showing character emotions and how her work, particularly The Emotion Thesaurus, helps writers improve in this area.
Becca Puglisi is an international speaker and bestselling author who has sold over one million copies of her Thesaurus series, with The Emotion Thesaurus being her flagship book. Starting as critique partners on Critique Circle, Becca and co-author Angela Ackerman discovered they both struggled with showing character emotions—Becca's characters were always shrugging and shuffling their feet. This led them to create lists of emotional cues that eventually became blog posts on Writers Helping W...
People in this episode
Host: Teddy Smith
Guest: Becca Puglisi
Topics covered
- character development
- emotional cues
- writing techniques
- thesaurus
- author insights
Keywords
- character emotions
- writing
- Becca Puglisi
- The Emotion Thesaurus
- emotional cues
- critique partners
- Angela Ackerman
Mentioned in this episode
Books & works: The Emotion Thesaurus
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