Writing Update: Emojis - A Writer’s Secret Weapon For Defense Against the Dark Descriptive Arts!
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Today’s my first day back writing since Saturday!
I had a whirlwind of a weekend visiting family, hanging out with friends ( we went to see MST3K LIVE!!! ), and partying at my close friend’s wedding! It was all time well spent. That said, I’m glad to be back at the keyboard, clacking and chopping away at my word count for Camp NaNoWriMo.
I’m gonna keep this post relatively short and say that, while writing this evening, I did the most incredibly millennial thing of me to do: I used an emoji as character research reference. How so? I’ll tell ya!
I was struggling with trying to describe a character’s expression. It was like one of those “really?” faces that you might make if someone appeared to be lost over an obvious realization, i.e. the emotionless expression face emoji ( -___- ). The best way I could think of it, and describe it to myself, was by visualizing and describing this emoji. I even used this site to see if there were other faces I could use to help my descriptions.
Overall, I laughed at myself for even thinking to use emojis as a way to help with my character descriptions, but then I thought. Just like animators and cartoonists use character sheets to catalog different expressions for their creations, shouldn’t it be a similar process for writers? Needless to say, I now have a full character sheet available in the form of emojis, and I intend to use them as my “secret weapon” writer’s tool for character expression success! And now I guess you do too!
In Writing,
DA Davis
