Hey, Bill. The Conflict Thesaurus is already up at One Stop for Writers. As we finish the content for the second volume of this book (coming this fall!), we’re adding all the new entries at One Stop and hope to publish those in June. The Fear Thesaurus will also be added, but not for quite a while, since we’re still in the process of creating it.

Regarding your other question, while we don’t have a tool specifically for value shifts, there are others you may be able to do what you’re hoping to do. The Story Maps tool helps you figure out the character’s journey across the whole story. So as you write out the story’s main turning points, you’re able to record the turning points for the character’s inner journey, too, which gives you a map of their evolution over time.

But I think a Timeline might be better for what you’re looking for. Just create a new point for each moment in the story where a shift occurs (or needs to occur). This way, you can focus specifically on the inner journey and map out the character’s steps to get them from Point A to Point B.

I hope this helps!

Second question….in my story my hero begins her fear of abandonment at about age 22 and it continues over the next 10 years until the story reaches its climax. Divorce.

Is there a way I can map out that progression gradually using value shifts in OneStop, or if not, would you have a suggestion as to how I should approach it?
Thanks,

Hi, Elizabeth! I’m so glad you’re enjoying our books! And your request isn’t rude at all—the opposite, in fact :). We are currently exploring this thesaurus at the blog and don’t know yet if it will be turned into a book. Our process is to introduce it here, gauge interest, and see if the content lends itself to a full-length book. We’ve just gotten started with this one, so it will be a long while before we make a decision on that.

If you’re suffering from a little FOMO and want to make sure you don’t miss any publications, you can also sign up to this newsletter, which only goes out when we’re announcing the next book publication.

Have a great day!

Hi, Stella. Good news—we’ve written a resource that does exactly this. It’s called The Emotion Thesaurus, and it helps writers show their characters’ emotions instead of telling them. It covers 130 different emotions, including Fear. You can see the entire entry at our sister site, One Stop for Writers. You’ll only be able to see a few entries there, but if you’d like to see more, you can register for a two-week free trial, or you can buy the Emotion Thesaurus book.

We hope so :).

Thanks, Sue. I’m excited to dive into this one. 🙂

There’s a lot of story fodder here, so I think this one can definitely be useful for writers.