I use the psychologically-based techniques I learned in Margie's Empowering Characters' Emotions class to add texture and flavor to my writing.  Margie taught me that a visceral response will outdo an adverb every time.  Now my heroine's heart no long beats loudly - it pounds like a drunk in an old western dragging his tin cup across the jail bars.

Margaret Crowley, Unpublished and improving, Central Ohio Fiction Writers