Emotional Craft

While writers might disagree over showing versus telling or plotting versus pantsing, none would argue this: If you want to write strong fiction, you must make your readers feel. The reader's experience must be an emotional journey of its own, one as involving as your characters' struggles, discoveries, and triumphs are for you. That's where The Emotional Craft of Fiction comes in. Veteran literary agent and expert fiction instructor Donald Maass shows you how to use story to provoke a visceral and emotional experience in readers.

Learn to Improve Emotional Descriptions, Create Believable Settings, and Craft Powerful Descriptive Writing. This guidebook is a companion to the first volume in the Fiction Writing Tools series, "The Writer's Guide to Character Emotion" on descriptive writing and Deep POV, with Immersive Writing Techniques. Within this in-depth writing craft book are practical tools on how to apply descriptive writing to create realistic settings, visceral responses, and lifelike characters. Included are lists and advice on: Setting Descriptors Character Personality Traits Character Development Descriptive...

Learn Fun and Creative Ways to Enhance Your Descriptions! The advice, tools, and reference lists in this writing guide for fiction authors will inspire writers to create original and vibrant descriptions of characters, locations, weather, and mood that can greatly enhance anyone’s storytelling, whether you’re writing adult fiction, young adult fiction, or children’s books. Fictional and real settings are much more effective, dramatic, and evocative when they’re visible, auditory, olfactory, and tactile. Character depictions are much more imaginative, lifelike, and vivid for readers ...

This guide is loaded with actionable strategies, concrete tools, and a no-BS multifaceted approach that will rewire the way you handle life. It will transform you from a so-called "snowflake" into a mental and emotional powerhouse.

Most writers struggle with creating a captivating story. The fastest way to improve your writing skills is by applying the Deep Point-of-View technique, which can transform your storytelling into riveting prose. This fiction writing guide includes hundreds of amazing ways to use “show don’t tell” to submerge readers so deeply into a scene they will experience the story along with the characters. Plus, this useful author resource includes a thesaurus with inspiring word choices! Writers will learn to: Revise Shallow Writing Deepen Characterization Craft Realistic Visceral Reactions ...

“Guide makes using AI seem easy” - Amazon Review “A Plotser’s Perfect Brainstorming Partner” - Amazon Review “Made me a romance writing AI ninja!” - Amazon Review Romance writers, take your romance writing to the next level with Artificial Intelligence and this guide from a USA Today Bestselling romance author of over 80+ romance novels. Hi, I’m author Rachelle Ayala, a prolific author and writing coach with my Romance In A Month method, and I’m here to lead you through the wonderful world of AI (Artificial Intelligence). I’ll show you the importance of prompting and how...

Some characters feel alive Others feel arranged The difference usually isn’t talent It’s emotional clarity. Writing the Heart of the Character: A Guide to Emotion-Driven Storytelling is an invitation to slow down and look beneath action, beneath plot twists, beneath dialogue — and ask a quieter question: What is this character feeling… really? In this guide, we explore how emotion shapes behavior, how internal conflict creates tension, and how small psychological truths often matter more than dramatic events. Inside, we talk about: • Building characters from emotional foundations ...

In Silence: The Psychology and the Craft for Emotional Wellbeing, the author―a psychotherapist, university professor, educator, and researcher―takes the listener into a thought-provoking and heartfelt journey. She offers original perspectives and vulnerable stories from her clients, students, and personal life. Drawing on, among others, ethnographic and autoethnographic accounts, Lehmann serves the listener with psychological insights, offering a timely, critical, and thorough viewpoint to contrast with an overload of misinformation about what silence is and how people should feel when quiet.

You have to talk with a colleague about a fraught situation, but you're worried that they'll yell, or blame you, or shut down. You fear your emotions could block you from a resolution. But you can communicate in a way that's constructive—not combative.

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Juliette has always longed for everything she experiences in her beloved books—grand adventures, heroic deeds, passionate love, and making a meaningful difference. She wants it all. Yet, despite her found family, her dream bookshop, and a burgeoning connection with a sweet man, chronic anxiety keeps her tethered to a safe and predictable routine. Until her life is upended when an unexpected magical ability surfaces. Now gifted with the power to locate lost things, Juliette's world becomes a blend of wonder and anxiety.

Her scars are soul deep Artist Cami Bolin has trust issues. Every man who should have loved her ultimately betrayed her. The word “father” leaves her cold, even when it applies to the one in Heaven, the one her current friends are trying so hard to get her to believe in. What does she need God for? She loves her work. She has a newfound granddad who treats her with a kindness she’s never experienced. She has all she needs, except there’s this guy… Temptation…or Divine intervention As a boy, Easton Cramer had two dreams. Convinced that his call to the ministry couldn’t coexist ...

Discover the healing power of expressive arts with this hands-on guide to using creative mindfulness to reduce stress, find presence, and unlock self-knowledge Expressive arts educator Rachel Rose weaves together mindfulness practice and art therapy to demonstrate how tapping into your own...

Master the most important craft principles to create emotionally compelling love stories that readers crave -- Learn how a simple, tried-and-true blueprint can help you create a story readers fall in love with -- Design and build an irresistible, unforgettable love story that sells. Get award-winning secrets to writing powerful stories that sell from Erin M. Brown, MA, MFA-a judge for some of the most famous romance writing contests worldwide. As an author, speaker, and story consultant for over 30 years, Erin shares with you the secrets she has shared with writers in transformational ...

“I would follow this man anywhere his words want to take us,” writes Elizabeth Gilbert, author of Eat, Pray, Love, in praise of Mark Nepo and The One Life We’re Given. “His voice helps us find pathways where we might have believed that no pathway could possibly exist.” “Mark Nepo is...

It was only supposed to be one night… Knowing her battered and betrayed heart can't take any more, Delilah casts a *forget* spell on Brandon. She’s an eighth generation witch, so why don’t her spells work on Brandon? Brandon remembers bits and pieces of his night with a woman he can’t quite shake the need for. Memories of her linger just out of reach, but he knows what he felt was real and he has to find her. The last thing Delilah wants is to be found. She's still broken, she's still a witch, he would never understand. But Brandon is determined. The only problem is when he finds ...

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It's possible to live a peaceful, joy-filled life every day when you learn to let go of the pain and trauma that's holding you back. Witchcraft for Emotional Wisdom is a supportive guide that will teach you how to access the deeper parts of yourself, gain control of your emotions, and put you on the path to healing by using the transformative powers of magic. Restore your emotional health, better understand your feelings, and create a more magical life.

New partner. New powers. New political minefield. Danny Walsh didn’t expect falling in love to give him diplomatic authority—but that’s what happens when your magical class runs on emotional bonds, and your polyamorous team just added a brilliant artificer. With five incredible women now part of his Resonance network, Danny’s power is evolving faster than ever. And just in time—because the Dragon Council has taken notice. When a diplomatic offer turns into a high-stakes evaluation of trust, collaboration, and magical innovation, Danny and his team must prove they can solve ...

This isn’t just a book. It’s a whisper from the wild edges of your soul, a call to come home. The Sacred Web invites you into a deeply personal, soul-rooted exploration of how to create, tend, and evolve your sacred space not as decoration, but as a living altar, a spiritual ecosystem, a reflection of your deepest becoming. With over two decades of practice in animism, shamanism, and land-based ceremony, Angell Deer guides you through the ancient and ever-relevant art of crafting a space that isn’t separate from your spiritual path but is your spiritual path, embodied. This 2025 ...