This book discusses every aspect of human emotion in short, concise chapters. Ms. Hood gives bad examples of writing that is either overdone, cliche-ridden, or just plain awful. She follows each of these examples with a better approach. Then she assigns exercises at the end.

Creating Character Emotions is broken up into different sections like Anger, Happiness and Love.It's easy to flip to the section you want and read that particular chapter. Ann Hood offers a "GOOD" and "BAD" example of writing on that particular subject. There are even exercises at the end of each chapter so you can try your own hand at creating emotions.