The Ultimate Fiction Thesaurus II (a creative writing study in the tradition of the elements of style)

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.

Let's see how this works:


First we start with a description: The morning was sunny.

This is okay, in fact sometimes simple is best, but let's give it another swing:


A shaft of light pierced the window.

Sunlight flooded the bedroom.

An easterly sun streamed into the kitchen.


Now try a few of these other lighting concepts on your own: dappled, beat down, glinted off, streaked, filtered, drenched


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.


The Ultimate Fiction Thesaurus II is a continuing study of common literary ideas that will teach you how to think like a novelist.

This lesson is approximately thirteen pages in length and is ideal for beginning and intermediate fiction writers.