The Character Secret Thesaurus
If you’re writing a character with a secret, how might you portray that through your writing? The Character Secret Thesaurus from Writers Helping Writers is a great place to start!
The Character Secret Thesaurus is a database in progress that presents a number of secrets a character might be keeping, along with specific details that could apply to that character. The writeup for each type of secret gives you a handful of concrete details that you can use when developing the character’s personality, motivations, and quirks. And the types of secrets range things like faking an illness, which writers may have done themselves, to things like being a serial killer, which is less likely to be part of a writer’s lived experience.
The authors behind Writers Helping Writers have published a wide array of other thesauruses for writers, which are often recommended to authors at all stages of their careers. The Character Secret Thesaurus as a is a fantastic reference tool as well!
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