The Emotion Thesaurus
One of the biggest problem areas for writers is conveying a character's emotions to the reader in a unique, compelling way. This book comes to the rescue by highlighting 75 emotions and listing the possible body language cues, thoughts, and visceral responses for each. Using its easy-to-navigate list format, readers can draw inspiration from character cues that range in intensity to match any emotional moment. The Emotion Thesaurus also tackles common emotion-related writing problems and provides methods to overcome them. This writing tool encourages authors to show, not tell emotion and is a creative brainstorming resource for any fiction project.
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- I would encourage you to spend time in those spaces with no intention to interact. Just go and spend time observing your thoughts and feelings. If you feel like you don't have much vocabulary for your emotions, two book I really recommend are Brene Brown's "Atlas of the Heart" [1], where a researcher names, describes, and compares the various emotions, and "The Emotion Thesaurus" [2], a writer's guide that includes a lot of description that can help with pattern-matching.
Once you have a handle on the feelings and what triggers them, I think you'll get some insight into the currently unknown reasons. I'd be you'll also have theories on how to work around it, but if not, a good therapist can help.
[1] https://brenebrown.com/book/atlas-of-the-heart/
[2] https://www.amazon.com/Emotion-Thesaurus-Writers-Character-E...
- Hello!
I have a collection of 1050 tuples with following information:
1. Emotion 1
2. Transition Type
3. Emotion 2
"Transition type" is either "escalates to" or "de-escalates to."
I took these data from "The Emotion Thesaurus" by Angela Ackerman and Becca Puglisi.
I want to create something visual which will allow me to better navigate in those emotions.
If I render these data with Graphviz Dot, I get a giant (42 MB) PNG file which is hard to navigate.
What graph algorithms can I use to transform this mess into something that I can make sense of (apart from creating separate diagrams for escalations and de-escalations which would reduce the number of edges)?
I am thinking about creating something like a subway map where you have "lines" with individual emotions being stations on those lines.
For example:
Acceptance -escalates-to-> Satisfaction -escalates-to-> Happiness
Acceptance, satisfaction and happiness would form a line.
The difference between subway lines and emotion lines is that with emotions the connections are not always bi-directional. That is, if acceptance escalates to satisfaction, it does not mean that satisfaction de-escalates to acceptance.
I appreciate any ideas.
Dmitrii Pisarenko
