For This Saturday, When You Want To Write A Ton I Would Definitely Set Yourself Up With A Series Of Rewards

“For this Saturday, when you want to write a ton – I would definitely set yourself up with a series of rewards and know what your milestones are. Either reward yourself after a certain number of words, or just butt-in-chair time, or whatever.”

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My friend Liz, a great cheerleader and a published novelist

And, also make a list of the things you can think of that might distract you: phone calls, requests for help, boredom, whatever and make little mini plans for how you’re going to ignore or defeat them! [Multiple WIP?] Unless you have a publisher waiting for an older book, I think you’re wise to work on the current one. You have 100% permission to be selfish and just write all day!! Tell yourself that you can’t help anyone else until you’re in the best place – and writing will put you in your best place!

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I’m gearing up for the 24-hour write-a-thon on Saturday, July 20, 2019, hosted by @queenangst

Goal: Write at least one complete scene for chapter 19 of Soldier’s Heart (James Vega x Jane Shepard), so maybe I’ll manage another chapter by August 11, the last day of #theWIPproject2019 ( @the-wip-project ) hosted by @barbex

My dream was to finish three stories, but I selected a more doable goal of finishing a chapter, which I did and published on Monday.

I’ll be doing the @weekendwritingmarathon this weekend, as always, and might jump in on their Discord server at some official writing sprint times throughout the week. Everyone is welcome!

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do you ever feel victimized by fanfic authors when you make them fanart and then they give YOU compliments and you try to give THEM compliments and its a vicious cycle??? ♥♥ ft. @nicolareed

I read this while actually reflecting upon the numerous artworks that had been produced about the story of Troy ( that because I just ended watching the TV show).

Then actually thinking about the numerous literary works that had been produced about Homer's Iliad (and I just had one quick glimpse at the French literary works, so from an international perspective, it is astronomically numerous)

So yeah, don't you dare tell me that fanfiction and fanart are underrated stuff!

“FANART IS NOT REAL ART!!!”

Do we need to talk about the relationship between the Renaissance and the Bible

Writing Body Language

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.

More In Depth Information

What I’ve stated above is more of a simplistic overview. IF you truly want to improve yourself, go to this

LINK HERE

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.

Use these resources to greatly increase the reactions of your character to another and create a more life-like world.

Pessimists : This glass is half-empty.

Fatalists : This glass is half-empty and there's nothing I can do about it.

Optimists : This glass is half-full.

Idealists : This glass is half-full and I will fill it to the brink again.

Realists: There's some liquid inside this glass. And it's water.

Pragmatists: Glasses are made to be filled and emptied out. Yeah, to drink.

Dreamers : This glass is half-full, I'm going to fill it up and make it never empty out, ever again.

Me: Can I have some vodka, instead of water?

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“this is an amazing shot”

Rain on my parade! Let’s add some more, for the fun of it!