The Rural Setting Thesaurus: A Writer's Guide to Personal and Natural Places (Writers Helping Writers Series)

I absolutely love this series of books. They are extremely helpful writing enhancement aids, especially when you are trying to make your work more unique and interesting.I really hope they make a thesaurus of facial expressions and body language sometime soon because; I believe it would be extremely helpful, it isn't something they have yet, and it is the one place left where I keep getting stuck. 😉Thank you to the authors for taking the time to create these books.Thank you for reading my review and good luck on whatever project you are using these books for. 🙂

I haven't really gotten into the book I'm just glanced over it and I already have so many ideas of how I'm going to present my next book I'm excited

I bought Angela Ackerman and Becca Puglisi's The Rural Setting Thesaurus (JADD Publishing 2016) to buttress my knowledge of the rural settings that make up so much of my current WIP--actually, the entire ecosystem that is the background for my trilogies in Man vs. Nature. Ackerman and Puglisi didn't disappoint. The authors cover settings at home, at school, in inhabited rural areas, and the very rural (the arctic tundra, the badlands, and more). For each of the dozens of locations, the authors cover sights, sounds, smells, tastes, textures, and sensations (all the sense) as well as possible conflict, people found here, and related settings. Then they give an example of what a description of the setting might be. For example, the example for river is:"I stumbled up the hill, my body baked as dry as the land I'd crossed. Flashes of liquid light winked through the trees ahead and my legs tremored.  Cocking me head, I heard it at last: the gentle burble of salvation."If you're writing about a rural location you haven't visited or don't know enough about--especially the all-important sensory detail--there's no better book out there than this. Oh--this is part of a series by these authors covering:The Urban Setting ThesaurusThe Positive Trait ThesaurusThe Negative Trait ThesaurusThe Emotional Wound ThesaurusThe Emotion Thesaurus

Great addition to the Ackerman/Puglisi thesaurus collection. Maybe one of the most important because settings are so often overlooked. This is not just for looking up a synonym for a weak word. So much more than you probably expect from a Thesaurus. It begins with some of the most comprehensive help I've read for using settings to improve your story - using for conflict, tension, setting mood, symbolism & metaphors, common errors used in settings, and MUCH more.Each setting has suggestions for sounds, sights, smells, textures & sensations, possible sources of conflict (!),people you might find there, links to other settings that might relate to and more. These aren't only single word suggestions but also descriptive phrases as well (very good ones!). Each ends with super-useful notes & tips, and examples.I like to just browse the entries and find settings I hadn't even thought of that I want to incorporate into my story.Complete your collection with The Positive Trait Thesaurus, The Negative Trait Thesaurus, and the fantastic Emotion Thesaurus. All unique in the Thesaurus world and same superb quality. Want even more - visit WritersHelpingWriters website for (free!) like physical attributes, textures, shapes, symbolism & motifs, weather, emotional wounds (seriously there is one for that) and more. I can't imagine what the authors are going to come up with next, but I'm looking forward to it.., ., .

There are many books on the market today that 'tell' an author how to write. One of the tried and true axioms in writing is 'show, don't tell.' Guess what? The Rural Setting Thesaurus (and its companions, which include The Urban Setting Thesaurus among many others) 'shows' you how to write. The Rural Setting Thesaurus doesn't tell us, "Write one’s setting in this place exactly like so." No, it includes a huge variety of everyday settings in which your characters might find themselves. Then, it proceeds to unpack those settings into sights, sounds, smells, tastes, textures and sensations, possible sources of conflict, people commonly found there, and even notes related settings (conveniently hyperlinked in the Kindle version). Further, these incredible references provide additional setting notes and tips and helpful example descriptions for each one. As if all that isn't valuable enough, authors Angela Ackerman and Becca Puglisi go even further by including key techniques and devices to employ in rural settings, and the resulting literary effects one can achieve by doing so.An author could spend every dime of their past, present and future royalties on a whole library of reference books and still not achieve a return on their investment as valuable as this thesaurus. I think I’ll creep into the root cellar and see what’s lurking in that musty corner under the stairs.

I try not to give too much away about the content of books. I have various reasons for reading this type of book. One of these days, I'll finish writing a book or as my wife says, she'll publish it after I pass on. At my current writing pace, it's going to be about 9,000 pages before I finish it. Just kidding around. This book is a good, educating and entertaining read. The only complaint I have isn't really a complaint, but I've mentioned it on other Kindle books. I just think the flow of this book and many others in this field, break their flow, my reading flow, with the plugging of their other books. I normally would take a star off, but this one isn't too bad for it.If I could share an old business tip it's don't distract your viewing audience's attention to anything besides whatever you got their attention with in the first place. It's kind of frustrating to be reading along only to see "To see how to do this, see my book "(name)". That would require me to stop reading your book. Still, overall, this is a good book with lots of things in it to learn.

Of all my favourite thesaurus books from this collection, The Rural Setting Guide (and its sister book, The Urban Settings Guide) are my two favourite. They helped me breathe life into my historical fiction adventure, and bring it to life with exquisite sounds, tastes, smells and sounds - but best of all, textures!

Como os demais Thesaurus de Angela Ackerman e Becca Puglisi, este é um auxiliar direto da maior utilidade para quem escreve - ficção em especial. Apesar de estar em inglês, quem conhece a língua pode facilmente converter as indicações para o português, e enriquecer caracterizações de personagens e cenários em seus textos. E se considerarmos o preço, então, temos uma compra altamente recomendável.

The Rural Setting Thesaurus is a handy tool when trying to construct settings and communities in your books. As an author, we sometimes don't quite remember to put everything in there, but following this book, using it as a companion tool to the other books, is super handy.

I find these to be worth every cent and I will be buying everyone ever published.

Excellent reference book.