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Plot, Character, and Idea Resources

• Writers Helping Writers Thesaurus Series (Free) is a series of entries relating to different elements of writing, like settings, emotional wounds, personality traits, and occupations. These are links to their free sample pages and listed in alphabetical order:

  • Character Motivation Thesaurus
  • Character Trait Thesaurus
  • Conflict Thesaurus
  • Emotion Thesaurus
  • Emotional Wound
  • Fear Thesaurus
  • Occupation Thesaurus
  • Physical Feature Thesaurus
  • Relationship Thesaurus
  • Setting Thesaurus
  • Talent & Skill Thesaurus

• Writers Helping Writers Thesaurus Series (Paid) is a link to the WHW bookstore page, where authors can purchase their books in pdf, ebook, or print form to gain access to all of the entries for each topic (the links for each above are samples, the books offer more).

  • This page also mentions a Kindle-exclusive bundle of 8 ebooks, but when I click the link it just takes me to the search results for 'writers helping writers'. However I was able to find that buying the full series in ebook form through Amazon would cost $46.48 USD so that may be what they're referring to.

• One Stop for Writers' Checklists & Tip Sheets is similar to the WHW Thesaurus Series, with things like Adding Conflict, Attraction Body Language (one each for feminine-identifying and masculine-identifying characters), Emotional Expressions, Describing Voice, and lots more. I'd say these are less in-depth than the WHW Thesaurus Series, whic is more like an encyclopedia, but this page and the infographics are still really good and can help a lot if you're stuck. Note: The linked page is free, but I believe the rest of the site is behind a paywall, though there is a free trial (that I haven't personally used and so can't explicitly recommend the paywalled info).

• Jami Gold's Worksheets for Writers is a page on her site that lists links to resources like beat sheets, scene checklists, outlining tools, and more. Some are written by Jami herself, others by guests, and some collected from around the web. If something in your outline or manuscript is giving you issue then this is a good place to find something that'll help you gain perspective on what the issue is and how to fix it.