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How to Improve your writing

This is something that happens every day in your life. A shift of your eyebrow in skepticism, or the way your lip may twitch to a half smile cause you’re trying not to laugh. These behaviors are vital for writing in character, because not only do the allow you to visually see what is happening but it is also reaffirming whatever emotion your character is showing.

So why should you write it?

Much of human communication is non-verbal which means you need to also translate this non-verbal reaction in a post. It allows you to greatly enhance the emotions of another character and always another person to ‘visually’ see how they feel in a post. Most of all, this will add depth and volume to your post to make it feel more real. IT will make your character feel like a human instead of just another fictional person you look at from above.

Below you will find a list different type of emotions and what sort of body language can be exhibited to them.

Three ways to accent an action.

When writing about emotions, there are different ways to verbally write them out. Each one is unique in their own way, allowing you to show more about the emotion.

Emphasize the Emotion. But doing this, you are expressing both the emotion and the body language. We’ll use a simple example. It’s short and simple yet you can sense he is happy. John felt so happy that he was humming a tune while walking down the hall.

Complicate the Emotion. Sometimes, even when you are feeling one emotion, deep down rooted underneath the facade of it all, there is actually an underlining emotion they feel. This is something you have to truly express otherwise no one will know. John felt so happy that he was humming a tune while walking down the hall. However, it was obvious by the way his nose crinkled that he was disgusted by the actions beforehand. Instead, John covered it up by appearing pleased today.

Contradict the Emotion. This is a little different than complicate. Contradicting means that you are claiming one thing when in fact its the other. In many ways, this has a variety of uses, from inner depth of the truth to what you see in person, or someone creating a wall. It could be considered a lie, but when is anything that easy? John felt so happy that he was humming a tune while walking down the hall. In truth, once he was in the classroom, his shoulders slumped and a pout crossed his lips when no one was around, showing just how displeased he was with the situation.

Remember that you do not always have to contradict or complicate anything. Sometimes all you need to do is emphasize and that will be just fine. You don’t always have to have an underlining complicated for an emotion to make it more enhanced.

Do be afraid to use the Thesaurus to also improve an emotion. Such things as “happy” is a nice emotional word, but think of how much more powerful it is when you heard some is “overjoyed” or “content.” She how these emotions matched up with a body language can give two different styles of happiness? Mix and match to find what works best for your character at the time.

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To see just how much body language can reveal about a person. You will find things such as how a person lies, how the eyes reaction, the positioning of a person in personal space, mouth, and head body language and so much more.

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What is the name of your race?

Where do they live?

What do they look like? (get really descriptive or include a picture if you have one)

Do they have a government? If so what is it?

Are they religious?

Does your race have any special abilities?

Can they travel off planet?

Can they reproduce with races other than their own?

How are the different genders treated?

How old is your race?

How long do the people live?

What is their clothing like?

What do they eat?

Do they have any specific weakness?

How do they travel around?

What kind of structures do they live in?

How do they treat animals?

Do they keep pets?

How far along are they advanced technologically?

How do they feel about technology?

How do they reproduce?

Do they use any weapons?

How do they feel about war?

Can they use magic?

How do they feel about nature?

Do they have a written language? How long has it been around?

Do they use a money system?

How do they communicate?

How are they educated?

Is there any sort of class system?

Do they trade with anybody? If so who and what?

Are there any common names?

How do they feel about sex?

How do they feel about marriage?

At what age is a person considered an “adult”?

Do they prefer to have lots of children or few?

How do they feel about familial ties?

When did your race start?

Do they have a standing army? What size?

What are the top 5 things that are valued?

Do they put the person or the society as a whole first?

What are their 5 biggest problems?

What are the top 5 things that they are good at?

Do they value the arts?

How far along are the scientifically?

How are people healed?

Do they use drugs or alcohol at all?

Who are the top 10 most important people in this race (either currently or overall)?

Do they have any sacred sites?

Have there ever been any major civil wars among your people?

Are they related to any other races in your world? How?

How do they believe the world was created?

Do they cook their food?

Are there any cities mainly consisting of your people? Where are they and what are the names?

Are there any objects sacred to this race?

How do they treat their leaders?

How do they treat the poor?

Is there much agriculture in their society?

What do they do for entertainment?

Are there any metals or jewels that are commonly used or sacred?

Are there any symbols that they use a lot?

Do they wear any armor? What is it made out of?

How do they keep track of their history?

Do you have any history written for them? (if so give a brief paragraph minimum)

Where did they originate from? (aka have the moved from their homelands to where they are now)

Do they have any other races that are their primary rivals?

Are there any common sicknesses among your race?

Do they prefer the heat, cold, or right in the middle?

What is the grandest thing they have constructed?

Do they ever go on vacations? Where’s a common spot?

Do they have any big merchants, companies, etc?

What do they believe happens when they die?

Is their culture similar/based any off of a real culture?

Do they prefer peace or war?

How do they feel about love?

How do they eat their food?

What do they (or would they do) if they encountered a different race that was more advance than theirs?

How do they treat their old?

How do they treat their young?

Are there any personality traits that are common in your race?

How do they feel about intelligent people? Stupid people?

What do they (or would they do) if they encountered a different races that was less advanced than theirs?

What would they do if they encountered a god/goddess/deity of their own religion? Of another?

How do they feel about preserving the past?

How do they treat the handicapped?

What kind of laws do they have in place (if any)?

What kind of jewelry do they wear?

Do they prefer to stay at home or travel?

Is there any common stories or legends?

Do they have any songs?

At what age do they reach sexual maturity?

What’s your favorite character from this race?

How involved are parents in their child’s life?

How do they feel about killing?

What’s the most important discovery your race has made?

Does your race believe they are superior to all other races?

If your race materialistic?

Does this race die out ever? How?

Can your race learn to speak other languages?

What’s the biggest threat to your race?

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