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EP 471 - Fear in Storytelling with Becca Puglisi

EP 471 - Fear in Storytelling with Becca Puglisi

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 Mark interviews Becca Puglisi about the new book THE FEAR THESAURUS which she co-authored with Angelea Ackerman. Prior to the interview, Mark shares comments from recent episodes, a personal update, and a word from this episode's sponsor. This episode is sponsored by the Show, Don't Tell Writing Podcast with Suzy Vadori. In this weekly show, Suzy brings you writing techniques, best practices, motivation, inspirational stories from real live authors out there making it in the world, and actionable advice that can help you turn that book you're writing into the bestseller you know deep down that it can be. In their interview, Mark and Becca talk about: The Descriptive Thesaurus series and how The Fear Thesaurus is book 11 in this seriesHow Becca and Angela are trying something new this year with their latest release - selling it direct before making it available on all the various retail channelsThe fear that came in the process of putting this book togetherHow there's not a lot out there about character fearsThe human needs that become impacted because of past trauma, and what a person fears and tries to avoidThe way so many of these experiences connect directly to a character's fear and ultimately their character development in your writingLooking at healthy/normal responses versus trauma inspired or unhealth/abnormal responsesHow fears can cross over from something normal and unremarkable to another thing that becomes an overblown reactionThe way this book is a great accompanying text to the Emotional Would ThesaurusLooking at how fear plays into storyA bit of a background behind the series and the first book: The Emotion ThesaurusThe common element of "show, don't tell" that runs through all of their booksThe authors' hope is that the entries in the book gives them ideas that they can take, modify and apply to the specifics of their charactersHow their previous book The Emotion Amplifier ties in beautifully to this bookA character's greatest fear versus an everyday fearThe way that fear is a great way to mobilize the reader's connection to the storyThe breakdown of fears and the way the book is laid outSelling this book directly on their Shopify store on April 15, 2026 before launching it to all the other retailers a month laterThe Fear Hub available at their website when they order the book off their direct storeThe overall website of Writers Helping Writers and the great 20+ years of resources that reside there, including free resources and downloads and handoutsCombining one's gifts with the things one is passionate aboutThe origin story of how Becca and Angela first met and decided to collaborate on The Emotion ThesaurusAdvice Becca would share with beginning writers based on her more than twenty years as a writer and almost twenty years of helping other writers After the interview Mark reflects on several different things related to his conversation with Becca. Links of Interest: Writers Helping WritersThe Fear ThesaurusManuscript Report (Mark's affiliate link - use MARK10 to save 10%)Buy Mark a CoffeePatreon for Stark ReflectionsMark's YouTube channelElevenLabs (AI Voice Generation - Affiliate link)Mark's Stark Reflections on Writing & Publishing Newsletter (Signup)An Author's Guide to Working With Bookstores and LibrariesThe Relaxed Author Buy eBook DirectBuy Audiobook Direct Publishing Pitfalls for AuthorsAn Author's Guide to Working with Libraries & BookstoresWide for the WinMark's Canadian Werewolf Books This Time Around (Short Story)A Canadian Werewolf in New YorkStowe Away (Novella)Fear and Longing in Los AngelesFright Nights, Big CityLover's MoonHex and the CityOnly Monsters in the BuildingOnce Bitten (Novella) The Canadian Mounted: A Trivia Guide to Planes, Trains and AutomobilesYippee Ki-Yay Motherf*cker: A Trivia Guide to Die HardMerry Christmas! Shitter Was Full!: A Trivia Guide to National Lampoon's Christmas VacationI Think It's A Sign That The Pun Also Rises Becca Puglisi is an international speaker, writing coach, and best-selling author of The Emotion Thesaurus and other resources for writers. Her books have sold over 1.4 million copies and are available in multiple languages, are sourced by US universities, and are used by novelists, screenwriters, editors, and psychologists around the world. She is passionate about learning and sharing her knowledge with others through her Writers Helping Writers blog and via One Stop For Writers—a powerhouse online resource for authors that's home to the Character Builder and Storyteller's Roadmap tools. The introductory, end, and bumper music for this podcast ("Laser Groove") was composed and produced by Kevin MacLeod of www.incompetech.com and is Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0
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