Writer Unleashed #40: Show Don't Tell: Revealing Character Through Body Language
It’s a scientific fact: body language speaks volumes about what’s truly in our hearts and minds. And the same is true of your characters.
Facial expressions, mannerisms, gestures, eye movements — non-visual cues, no matter how subtle, divulge what a person may be feeling in any given moment.
It’s one of the best ways to show, don’t tell.
In today’s episode of Writer unleashed, we’ll explore:
- How we decode non-verbal cues of people we encounter every day
- How to avoid labeling character emotion and reveal what they’re really feeling
- What gestures, eye and body movements, micro expressions reveal about characters in ways that even they’re not aware of, but the reader intuits
- How to bring subtlety to the dynamics between characters
- A fun, 2-part exercise to drive it all home
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