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The Character Secret Thesaurus

| April 28, 2025

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 […]

Fun for Friday: Panlexicon

| September 14, 2018

Sometimes, you need just the right word to make your story sing. Some might turn to a thesaurus, but thesauruses don’t always help you find the best word for what you want to convey, and sometimes they can actually lead you down the wrong path. A useful tool that I had pointed out to me […]