Fiction Writing Resources

Getting Rid of “thought” Verbs:

Thinks, Knows, Understands, Realizes, Believes, Wants, Remembers, Imagines, Desires, and a hundred others you love to use. 

Alternative Ways to Describe Character Reactions:

If you find yourself overrelying on : He smiled. She gulped. He frowned. She cringed. etc.

Describing Emotions with Physical Cliches

For when you find yourself using eyes, hearts, lungs, and stomachs to express every emotion.

How Fiction Writers Can Show Emotions in Their Characters in Effective Ways:

Lots of examples on how to show emotion without overrelying on descriptions of bodily sensations.