The Body Thesaurus: A Fiction Writer's Sourcebook of Words and Phrases to Describe Characters Kindle Edition

You would do better with a free thesaurus on line.I was highly disappointed in this book!!! The biggest issue is there is no organizations and is nothing more than a list words, and some of the words doesn't even go with the body part.Here is small sample of a chapter,Lets say you wanted help with describing skin.Chapter 31SkinAdjectives in Alphabetical OrderA-Facne-prone; acne-scarred; adolescent; adolescent-type, adverse (what does this word have to do with describing skin?); African; aged; ageing/ aging; albino; allergic; almondy (I'm assuming the author meant almond); already-raw; amazing; amber; anemic; ash-colored; ash-gray; ash-white; ashen; ashy; Asian; auburn; average;This was just a list of A's and it goes right into the B's. As a writer do you have the time to comb through a list of alphabetical words? It doesn't get better, lets go right into the next part of chapter with...Verbs and Phrasal Verbs in Alphabetical OrderA-Oabraded; absorbed; ached; acquired; added; adhered; adjusted; adorned; adorned with; affected; affected by; afforded; allowed; amazed; appeared; applied to; astonished (yes this is a verb, its meaning... to fill with sudden and overpowering surprise or wonder. How does a skin become overpower with surprise!) ; attached; avoided (Here's another one! How does the skin stay away from something. The character, yes, but remember this is a book on how to describe body parts);And the list moves right onto the next letter in line, again who has time for search through a heap of words, but wait there is more,Noun Phrasesabrasion of the skin; amount of skin; appearance of the skin; area of skin; aspect of the skin; bag of skin;Once again it continues on with the next the letter. The noun phrases are for the word SKIN, not how to describe the actual skin. I don't know about you, but when I struggle with describing a part of the body, I'm not just looking for an adjective, verb or a noun phrase that use the word of the body part!!! I'm looking base on show not tell. This book could have been organized by shape, size, touch, smell, hear, taste, color, emotions, actions, possibly movements for each body part.This is a great idea, and I believe a much needed tool for the writing community but this author missed the vision completely.

As with any thesaurus, it only works to help stimulate the writers mind.The book is loaded with many single and multiple word descriptions,but the writer must still put the words together in an interesting manner in order to be able to tell their story.What is a thesaurus but a list of words, and is it that not writers use.......Words......Different Words.Because, if readers get tired of seeing the same words over and over in your story, they will stop readingand put your book down, or worse you get bad reviews.Which as a writer means, you lose. No only one reader, but possibly future ones.Expanding your vocabulary can only help you as a word-smith.The Body Thesaurus is a very useful tool to have, if you study anduse it.I do both.You never want someone to say that your writing is lazy.

Ms. Evans has listed all body parts alphabetically, and for each part, she's broken it down to adjectives, verbs and phrasal verbs, and noun phrases. Lots of choices...and I love words. This book is a treasure, and I use it often. It is an excellent writer's tool.

Wonderful book that opens up avenues of my imagination. I have it as one of my primary go to reference books.I would suggest buying this book to anyone that has a love for any form of writing.

A must have for a writer.

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A definite must buy for any writer. Wonderful reference tool to help those with writers block.

At best, it's two stars. Its been said, just a bunch of words piled together with very little organization besides being put in alphabetical order. Bit of a rip off.

I am a sucker for books of word lists. Most self-published ones tend to be a couple of hundred pages (if you are lucky) of one word per line affairs. Fortunately this book is not in that league. Open it up and you are presented with page after page of walls of words and phrases. It's great and worth the money.