If you guys are like me, and you struggle a little with describing locations, can I suggest…
as a lifesaver.
There is a WHOLE SERIES of these!! Amazon has like half the series under Ackerman, Angela and the other half under Puglisi, Becca, but both authors worked on all of them. The Emotion Thesaurus has done SO MUCH to help me improve my writing of body language and such too. And they’re each like $5-6 for the Kindle version with quick links in the table of contents and everything. I cannot recommend these enough, they’re super special awesome.
An example of how this has helped me was in this section here; the first photo is the first draft and the second is the final version of this scene. I mostly used The Emotion Thesaurus for this; the emotion being conveyed here is relief and relaxing after suppressing stress for a long time, but S himself isn’t really aware of his own emotional state here and I could not use those words to describe what he was feeling inwardly. So instead I used what he feels in his body and his surface rationalization, and it just reads so nicely this way imo.
These are also on Zlibrary for people who do not want to support amazon.
Link
This seems highly helpful - gonna hop onto z library haha
https://z-lib.io/book/14417936
https://pdfroom.com/books/the-negative-trait-thesaurus-a-writers-guide-to-character-flaws/jGk208lR2pm
https://pdfroom.com/books/the-emotion-thesaurus-a-writers-guide-to-character-expression/QEBgjMzGdoN