Ever get tired of writing "arched an eyebrow" or "frowned"?
I'm constantly trying to find new ways to describe my characters' common expressions and actions (I want to kill myself every time someone has to get out of a car again) and I have a paperback version of The Emotion Thesaurus I love to dip into when I find myself typing "shrugged" or "chewed her lip" for the fifth time.
It's a handy little list of the ways people express various emotions, and even if you don't pick one they list verbatim, sometimes picturing what they describe helps bring to mine a nice little simile of your own.
