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Body Language Cheat Sheet for Writers

As described by Selnick’s article:

Author and doctor of clinical psychology Carolyn Kaufman has released a one-page body language cheat sheet of psychological “tells” (PDF link) fiction writers can use to dress their characters.

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This is something I have always encouraged people to consider when writing. If you can afford it, and you have one in your area - TAKE A BODY LANGUAGE CLASS. It will open your eyes to a whole new world of subtleties you never knew existed. SO worth it as a “Real Life” skill and for all those times when you’re writing and you need your character to react nonverbally.

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There is also, in addition to these others, the writer resource book: The Emotion Thesaurus by Angela Ackerman and Becca Puglisi

fixyourwritinghabits

This is how you show, not tell what your character is feeling.

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Body Language Cheat Sheet for Writers

As described by Selnick’s article:

Author and doctor of clinical psychology Carolyn Kaufman has released a one-page body language cheat sheet of psychological “tells” (PDF link) fiction writers can use to dress their characters.

aetherial

This is something I have always encouraged people to consider when writing. If you can afford it, and you have one in your area - TAKE A BODY LANGUAGE CLASS. It will open your eyes to a whole new world of subtleties you never knew existed. SO worth it as a “Real Life” skill and for all those times when you’re writing and you need your character to react nonverbally.

emptymanuscript

There is also, in addition to these others, the writer resource book: The Emotion Thesaurus by Angela Ackerman and Becca Puglisi

fixyourwritinghabits

This is how you show, not tell what your character is feeling.

inkstay

Would you like to appear in the next issue? Write a piece for one of our monthly prompts or mail us at [email protected] with your ideas that would be perfect for our magazine. We’re looking forward to hearing from you!

Download this month’s magazine here or email us and we’ll send you the pdf.

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Prompt #13158

“She may look like a child, but she’s been a mother to this family for twelve generations.”

#I may just have to use this

There was a time when words flowed through my fingers as silk does the limbs of a spider. Weaving webs of mystery and wonder channeling the words of ancient poetic Masters.

I channeled rays of beauty, like streams of sun through a clear glass. I willed words to build sensation, for the mind to encompass.

Today I write with a shovel in my hand, I write as if I try to dig up the dead. To breathe life into a pile of dust and ash, that I had put to rest in a life long past.

I used to call myself a poet, a warrior in this life. I used my words as my shield, my emotions as my knife.

I should like to return to that place, where I uncorked my emotions, and with them immersed myself in a blissful state.

For now, I will walk through the graveyard, eyeing tombstone of poems nearly gone, I will revive them with all I have, even if it means digging and digging, until I am worn.

~Brey

#writing #poetry #poets #poets of tumblr

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I’ve thought about doing freelance book design for a long time, and I’m finally going for it! The site is The Illustrated Page Book Design. I’m selling pre-made and custom covers, bookmarks, social media graphics, ads, and social media headers.

I am happy to work with all sorts of covers, but I also want to make pre-made covers that are F/F especially historical or fantasy F/F, since those can be hard to find. Often this means adapting photographs of F/M couples since there is so little F/F stock photographs. The first pre-made cover above, the one with the two women on the couch? I merged two F/M photos to create it.

I also want to create covers for books with trans protagonists, although the stock situation there is even worse than that of F/F photos. The paranormal/urban fantasy book with the wolf in the background has a trans woman model, and I plan to create more trans pre-made covers.

You can find my resource for trans stock photographs here.

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Finally the true purpose of m/f covers where the poses are all the same shit everytime is clear,,,, its to make editing gay versions easier

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Actually the poses of f/m being the same makes it harder because the poses are so heteronormative! It’s always “woman looking up at man,” “man putting his arm around woman,” “woman swooning in man’s arms”. Where’s the photos of a woman holding a swooning man???

#def saving this for the future!

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Hannah Willow

looking for Japanese Readers!

I have a question for any Japanese followers or any Japanese users who happen to see this post. I’m currently writing a story about a Japanese man who is a dragon and changes his appearance quite often (in between the Dragon and the Man). He is Japanese.

I understand that in Japanese folklore, some dragons can do this. Namely Ryujin (still doing research).

However, I don’t know if it would be offensive, for me, as someone who’s not Japanese to include this character in my work.

That said, I want to write the character and have someone who is Japanese (or many people who are Japanese) look over it for me when I’m complete, and let me know if it’s alright? I don’t want to give away the plot at the moment until I’ve finished the first draft, but I wanted to know if anyone would be willing to read it when i’m through.

please share this, this will be the last story for my children's story book, and I’d love someone to look over this last piece!

#black tumblr #writers of color