Adjectives Describing Personal Qualities Vocabulary Word Bank
Ex. “obliging, obnoxious, old-fashioned, one-sided, orderly, ostentatious, outgoing, outspoken”
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.
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.
There is also, in addition to these others, the writer resource book: The Emotion Thesaurus by Angela Ackerman and Becca Puglisi
This is how you show, not tell what your character is feeling.
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SHOW, PEOPLE!!
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Norwegian conceptual artist Rune Guneriussen explores a fascinating balance of human culture and nature with his outdoor installations of electric lamps, stacked books, chairs, and phones that appear to have gathered in small herds and swarms as if suddenly sentient. Each work is assembled and photographed on-site without any digital intervention in various rural locations around Norway.
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Literary Birthday - 3 February
Happy Birthday, Gertrude Stein, born 3 February 1874, died 27 July 1946
Gertrude Stein: Top 10 Quotes
- If you can’t say anything nice about anyone else, come sit next to me.
- We are always the same age inside.
- If the communication is perfect, the words have life, and that is all there is to good writing, putting down on the paper words which dance and weep and make love and fight and kiss and perform miracles.
- Remarks are not literature.
- I really do not know that anything has ever been more exciting than diagramming sentences.
- I think one is naturally impressed by anything having a beginning a middle and an ending when one is beginning writing and that it is a natural thing because when one is emerging from adolescence, which is really when one first begins writing one feels that one would not have been one emerging from adolescence if there had not been a beginning and a middle and an ending to anything.
- Writing and reading is to me synonymous with existing.
- You have to know what you want to get it.
- A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.
- To write is to write is to write is to write is to write is to write is to write is to write.
Gertrude Stein was born in the USA but moved to Paris in 1903, embarking on a literary career that produced Tender Buttons and Three Lives. The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas became a literary best-seller and elevated Stein from the obscurity of a cult literary figure into the light of mainstream attention. Stein was an art collector and the host of a salon that included expatriate writers Ernest Hemingway, Sherwood Anderson and Ezra Pound.
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Other Habits may be any habits that have not been covered in previous sections.
Here’s a mish-mash of random habits that may interest you!
- Always carries a water bottle/flask, but hardly ever drinks from it
- Is a stickler for rules
- Hugs people all the time
- Chases animals whenever possible
- Always has a book under arm or in pocket
- Uncanny ability to remember important dates or times
- In spare time, whittles wood/carves small bones
- Bums people for small change, even if there is no real need
- Practices elaborate tricks (ex. juggling swords) whenever possible
- Follows orders in letter, not in spirit
- Grins evilly whenever possible
- Laughs evilly whenever possible
- Carry a pack of sundry medications
- Is a hypochondriac
- Always double-checks everything
- Makes lists constantly
- Is a pessimist, always assuming nothing will work
- Always looks around and gawks like a tourist, even in well known places
- Refuses to let anyone walk behind him/her if possible
- Likes to tie nooses in ropes
- Can’t stop “improving” a good thing until it becomes a full-blown disaster
- Has to critique everything
- Writes his name/initials/mark as graffiti everywhere
- Laughs to himself/herself at intervals, for no apparent reason
- Is constantly uncomfortably close to other people
- Always treats members of the opposite sex with courtesy
- Always treats members of the opposite sex with contempt
- Sharpens/polishes knives for hours
- Is inappropriately happy
- Squints a lot
- Listens to traveler’s tales at every opportunity
- Is very forgetful
- Tries to impress the locals at every opportunity
- Tries to impress the opposite sex at every opportunity
23 Bookish Collective Nouns
- Anthology of Poems
- Babble of Linguists
- Babel of Words
- Catalogue of Librarians
- Collective of Nouns
- Conjunction of Grammarians
- Erudition of Editors
- Library of Books
- Obscurity of Poets
- Pan of Reviewers
- Pitfall of Fine Print
- Plot of Playwrights
- Pomposity of Professors
- Pretension of Intellects
- Quiz of Teachers
- Scoop of Journalists
- Shush of Librarians
- Squint of Proof-readers
- Swarm of Literary Drones
- Tenet of Palindromes
- Wealth of Documents
- Worship of Writers
- Wrangle of Philosophers
by Amanda Patterson from Writers Write
