The Occupation Thesaurus: A Writer's Guide to Jobs, Vocations, and Careers

Becca Puglisi · Angela Ackerman

Jun 2020 · JADD Publishing

About this ebook

Compelling fiction starts with characters who have well-crafted layers that make them memorable, relatable, and fascinating. But trying to convey those layers often results in bulky descriptions that cause readers to skim. Occupations, though, can cover a lot of characterization ground, revealing personality traits, abilities, passions, and motivations. Dig deeper, and a career can hint at past trauma, fears, and even the character’s efforts to run from—or make up for—the past. 

 

Select a job that packs a powerful punch. Inside The Occupation Thesaurus, you’ll find:

 

* Informative profiles on popular and unusual jobs to help you write them with authority

* Believable conflict scenarios for each occupation, giving you unlimited possibilities for adding tension at the story and scene level

* Advice for twisting the stereotypes often associated with these professions

* Instruction on how to use jobs to characterize, support story structure, reinforce theme, and more

* An in-depth study on how emotional wounds and basic human needs may influence a character’s choice of occupation

* A brainstorming tool to organize the various aspects of your character’s personality so you can come up with the best careers for them

 

Choose a profession for your character that brings more to the table than just a paycheck. With over 120 entries in a user-friendly format, The Occupation Thesaurus is an entire job fair for writers. 

About the author

Becca Puglisi

As an author, Becca loves nothing more than coming up with new content for her Writers Helping Writers® descriptive thesaurus collection (including the best-selling Emotion Thesaurus: A Writer’s Guide to Character Expression, now an expanded Second Edition), which has sold over half a million copies. She also is co-founder of One Stop For Writers®, a unique online resource containing many helpful tools, craft tutorials, and the entire hyperlinked and searchable thesaurus collection to help writers elevate their storytelling. Becca is an international speaker who enjoys teaching workshops and presenting various writerly topics. Her books are represented by foreign rights agent Marleen Seegers of 2 Seas Agency.

Angela Ackerman

The author of numerous bestselling resource books printed in 8 different languages, Angela enjoys sharing her passion for writing craft. She is a writing coach, international speaker, and a firm believer that writers succeed best together. The desire to help writers in new, innovative ways led to One Stop for Writers®, a unique site originally co-founded with Becca Puglisi and Lee Powell (the creator of Scrivener for Windows and Linux). This creative portal contains game-changing tools and resources that enable writers to craft powerful fiction.