The Ultimate Fiction Thesaurus II

The Ultimate Fiction Thesaurus II

Beyond the inspirational support most books offer, I can assure you that two things, and only two, are guaranteed to improve your writing. These are reading and the act of writing itself. The Ultimate Fiction Thesaurus II is a unique literary thesaurus that bridges the gap of reading by taking common descriptive devices and words and places them into usable categories that will serve as a ready toolbox for your own writing.<br /><br />Let’s see how this works...<br /><br />First we start with a description:<br />The morning was sunny.<br /><br />This is okay, in fact sometimes simple is best, but let’s give it another swing:<br /><br />A shaft of light pierced the window.<br />Sunlight flooded the bedroom.<br />An easterly sun streamed into the kitchen.<br /><br />Now try a few of these other lighting concepts on your own: dappled, beat down, glinted off, streaked, filtered, drenched<br /><br />You can immediately see the limitations of a traditional thesaurus; they are helpful at supplying a literal equivalent, such as sunlit for sunny, but frequently miss the finer nuances of language.<br /><br />Let’s try another quick example and this time we’ll ruin our perfect day:<br />The morning was thick with fog. <br /><br />This clearly conveys an idea but with a little effort we can improve this description also.<br /><br />The morning was shrouded in fog.<br />Fog settled like a blanket over the city. <br /> <br />I cheated on this last example, using not one but two words frequently associated with fog, the second being blanket. <br /><br />The Ultimate Fiction Thesaurus II is a continuing study of common literary ideas that will teach you how to think like a novelist.<br /><br />This lesson is approximately thirteen pages in length and is ideal for beginning and intermediate fiction writers.