Hi, Oebele. I’m glad you were able to pick up copies of our trait thesauruses. I know it can be hard when you’re looking for a certain trait and it hasn’t been included. As you can imagine, there are a lot of traits that we could include, and we simply can’t include them all; if we did, the books would be so large that we’d have to hike up the price to cover costs, and that wouldn’t benefit anyone. So we have to pick and choose the traits we include. In some cases, certain traits were just too similar to existing traits to warrant a second entry. Visionary, for instance, is listed as a similar attribute for Idealistic. So even though the two aren’t synonymous, they’re very similar, and you can view that entry to get some ideas that will also apply to a visionary character.

We also find that people use different words for the same trait. You were looking for hardworking, and we do have an entry for that, but it’s called Industrious. The same is true for absent-minded; that entry is called Forgetful. Compulsive Liar is Dishonest, Hopeful is Optimistic, etc. We realize that it’s common for people to use different terms for various traits, so to make it easier for users to find the traits they’re looking for, we included an index at the back of each book that lists all the entries, as well as any similar terms, so people can find the trait that they’re looking for, even if it’s listed under a synonym.

Hopefully that will help you find some of the traits you’re looking for. As for the ones we didn’t include, I’ll make note of them. It’s difficult to add extra content to our books, but we don’t have that problem at One Stop for Writers, where size is no limitation. So we do frequently add new content to the thesaurus collections there. So it’s possible some of your suggested traits will be added at some point.

Thanks for reaching out with your comments. Best of luck with your writing.

Becca

Angela