I’m a visual learner; this learning style inventory verified it. In fact, if you’ve not ever taken one of these, click on the link and find your learning style. I actually have my own microwave version: When you need directions (let’s pretend you don’t have a navigation system in your car), do you want them written or prefer if someone just tells you?

One sure fire way for me to end up in Tickfaw instead of Tennessee is to rattle off clumps of words like, “Head north five miles, veer left, take a right, then drive two blocks and take a left turn, head southwest for nine miles…”

Anyway…all that to segue into this post. Below is something I discovered  while doing research for my new work-in-progress. It’s a colorful model of emotions, their relationship to one another, and their degrees of intensity. My little visual-learner self loves it!

And since today is “Fiction on my Fanny Friday,” I wanted to share something writer-like.

The Nature of Emotions

by Plutchik

“Author’s three-dimensional circumplex model describes the relations among emotion concepts, which are analogous to the colors on a color wheel. The cone’s vertical dimension represents intensity, and the circle represents degrees of similarity among the emotions. The eight sectors are designed to indicate that there are eight primary emotion dimensions defined by the theory arranged as four pairs of opposites. In the exploded model the emotions in the blank spaces are the primary dyads—emotions that are mixtures of two of the primary emotions.”