Review: GOLDMINE for Authors!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 08 22, 2013
I briefly scanned the book before purchasing to see what the book contained and if it was worth the download. After looking at the sneak peek and chapters I hurriedly pushed the buy button on my kindle. Uploaded it and started to check it out and I have to say I'm seriously impressed with it.First the author breaks down all the physical categories like hair, head, eyes, nose, lips, teeth, tongue, arms, legs, feet, chests, breasts etc. Then you have another Part II which describes Senses, Feelings, and Facial Expressions. Part III is Describing Intimacy and you've got Voice, Breathing, Kissing, Sex under that one.Then under each section they are broken down into categories.So for Eyes you've got Root Words: awareness, eyes, focus, gaze, glance, perception, stare, vision. Then it goes to Eye colors: amber, black, blue, brown, gray, green, hazel, and violet.Then it breaks it down further for you into Green Variations, Blue Variations, Brown/Amber Variations, Violet Variations, Black Variations, Gray Variations. Under each of those variations we have several other forms of blue (like aqua, aquamarine, arctic blue, atlantic blue, azure, baby blue, etc.)Then she's got adjectives to describe each of those fantastic eye colors (adorable, adventurous, aggressive, amorous, angry, anxious, appraising, etc.)Then she gives you a few examples of Descriptive combinations for each. (cold, hungry eyes; dark, deep eyes; deep brown eyes. etc.)Then we have Verbs-Things Eyes Can DoAdjusted, admired, appraised, assayed, averted, bathed, beheld, betrayed, blazed, etc.Then we have Descriptive Phrases having to do with Eyes.He appraised her curvaceous figure.Her eyes glazed with need.His cold hungry eyes peered through the darkness.Please note the above is all from the author and not complete...its just a few examples of each category to give you examples. The adjectives/verbs used to describe each section are pretty lengthy and just reading one section at a time has my muse kicking in with all my current stories and picking a word/phrase from each to come up wiht my own unique sentences for my stories."His whiskey colored eyes roved over her figure scrutinizing. Appearing satisfied with his perusal, he winked at her before his talons closed over her again, locking her in his grasp."Just an example of how motivating this book can be to our crazy Muses. Mine is on overdrive since reading. The first thing I'm going to do is go over all of my characters and their body parts (hair, chest, mouth etc) and then I'm going to go through this book one by one to fill out each so I have them when I'm ready to write.I bought another book at the same time TheSEXaurus: Sexy Words for Writers. It didn't separate the sections in a way that made sense to me so that book was OK but I definitely preferred this authors books. I love how she actually indexed it at the beginning so if I'm looking for just "chest" info I can go to the beginning and click chest and it takes me right where I need to go. Since this isn't a physical book I really appreciate that because it makes using it a TON easier for me.I did grab my copy for free....however after checking out the book and all it has to offer myself I would gladly paid the $2.99 she has it listed for. This book is very much worth its weight in gold.I kept thinking to myself something is missing from my writing and for the life of me I couldn't figure out what it was. It was this book and the descriptions. I love the variations and it has definitely inspired me to go back over some of my current works and use this book. My favorite section is the Verbs/Adjectives for what each "part" can do.If you're looking for a bit more inspiration in your writing, I'd highly recommend you check this book out!I'm off right now to go work on my character sheets and my Kindle Fire with this book will be in my other hand.Thank you so much to the author for putting something like this together. I can't even imagine the amount of time it took to put together, especially with separating each section but I appreciate the hard work you did in doing that because as a writer it makes it that much easier for me to jump in and not get distracted or annoyed by the formatting or the way its laid out.