Emotion Amplifiers by Angela Ackerman and Becca Puglisi
Read it complete last night.
As writers we (supposedly) own a real dictionary, as in one from at least 60 or 70 years ago before political activists set to redefining words which have stood us in good stead for centuries to mean whatever their agenda wants it to mean, today.
We also own thesauruses. (for when we run of out different speech tags to say "said" because we want to amplify an emotional state our character is stuck in. Emotion Amplifiers will be a God send in helping you avoid such tags and a whole lot more common failings.)
An analogy:
Imagine you're a painter with canvas, brushes, and tubes of paint. You struggle with proportion, even the basic anatomy of your subject, lights, shadows, and the million other issues painters deal with.
Now imagine some joker has invented a new paint and revolutionized the entire process because this new paint has an additional element: AI.(artificial intelligence).
Put the brush in the paint and its AI senses what you want and guides the brush strokes.
The authors perceived a need, invented a concept, fleshed it out with a series of writing aid Thesauruses, and sell the series.
What do other customers think?
Emotion Amplifiers was published Dec 4, 2014. As of today Sept 10, 2016 it has 197 reviews with an overall rank of 4.7 out of 5 stars.
81% 5 Stars.
11% 4 Stars.
They have a website. Go look around. Live a little. Spend a couple of dollars. Sample chapters of other books in the series are included in Emotion Amplifiers.
These titles are not a temporary amusement or a here today gone tomorrow fad.
They're real tools, (at only $5 and $6) and as an old gear head, burned and skinned knuckle wrench turner my experience taught me many years ago that Whatever I paid for a quality tool, I never missed the money after I'd spent it.
The satisfaction of using that tool every time I used it for years and years down the road made me glad I had spent that money.
So, yeah. I will be buying more of their product.
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Very well done ladies.
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