Comments on: The Body Language Of Fear: Beyond “Lions and Tigers And Bears, Oh My!” https://writersinthestormblog.com/2018/10/the-body-language-of-fear-beyond-lions-and-tigers-and-bears-oh-my/ A Blog On Writing Sun, 12 Jan 2025 22:05:17 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: Top Picks Thursday! For Writers & Readers 11-08-2018 | The Author Chronicles https://writersinthestormblog.com/2018/10/the-body-language-of-fear-beyond-lions-and-tigers-and-bears-oh-my/#comment-138367 Thu, 08 Nov 2018 19:52:28 +0000 https://writersinthestormblog.com/?p=35044#comment-138367 […] For those working on character development, Jordan Dane proposes making your characters memorable. One way to do that is to give your characters flaws. Bonnie Randall shares 8 ways to create character flaws, and Kristen Lamb ponders the difference between flawed characters and those “too dumb to live.” Also, to help you show instead of tell about your characters, Lisa Hall-Wilson digs into the body language of fear. […]

]]> By: Fae Rowen https://writersinthestormblog.com/2018/10/the-body-language-of-fear-beyond-lions-and-tigers-and-bears-oh-my/#comment-138304 Sun, 04 Nov 2018 04:58:43 +0000 https://writersinthestormblog.com/?p=35044#comment-138304 I'm with Julie. In my current WIP I need to play up my main character's fear. He's not a trained soldier, but he's fighting in a war and he could die. A year ago he never would have believed he'd be at this place in his life and he needs to be way more scared.

]]> By: anjanasundariyer https://writersinthestormblog.com/2018/10/the-body-language-of-fear-beyond-lions-and-tigers-and-bears-oh-my/#comment-138289 Fri, 02 Nov 2018 11:41:41 +0000 https://writersinthestormblog.com/?p=35044#comment-138289 Awesome.. Keep on writing.

]]> By: Jenny Hansen https://writersinthestormblog.com/2018/10/the-body-language-of-fear-beyond-lions-and-tigers-and-bears-oh-my/#comment-138285 Thu, 01 Nov 2018 20:09:33 +0000 https://writersinthestormblog.com/?p=35044#comment-138285 In reply to Julie Glover.

Totally, Julie. This post really made me stop and think about stakes.

]]> By: Nan Lundeen https://writersinthestormblog.com/2018/10/the-body-language-of-fear-beyond-lions-and-tigers-and-bears-oh-my/#comment-138282 Thu, 01 Nov 2018 16:08:17 +0000 https://writersinthestormblog.com/?p=35044#comment-138282 Thank you, Lisa. I had thought anger was driving my two main characters in the novel I'm writing, but I'm thinking fear underlies their anger--both have to do with sudden loss of people they loved. So, fear at losing another and more than a smidgen of survivor's guilt.

]]> By: Julie Glover https://writersinthestormblog.com/2018/10/the-body-language-of-fear-beyond-lions-and-tigers-and-bears-oh-my/#comment-138281 Thu, 01 Nov 2018 15:52:04 +0000 https://writersinthestormblog.com/?p=35044#comment-138281 This is so phenomenal. I'm really thinking through your questions now about what my main character fears, what the stakes are, and what she stands to lose. Thank you, Lisa!

]]> By: The Body Language Of Fear: Beyond “Lions and Tigers And Bears, Oh My!” – From the Writers in the Storm Blog | Author Don Massenzio https://writersinthestormblog.com/2018/10/the-body-language-of-fear-beyond-lions-and-tigers-and-bears-oh-my/#comment-138280 Thu, 01 Nov 2018 11:20:07 +0000 https://writersinthestormblog.com/?p=35044#comment-138280 […] Read the rest of this post HERE. […]

]]> By: Laura Drake https://writersinthestormblog.com/2018/10/the-body-language-of-fear-beyond-lions-and-tigers-and-bears-oh-my/#comment-138279 Thu, 01 Nov 2018 08:30:47 +0000 https://writersinthestormblog.com/?p=35044#comment-138279 I'm all about the emotion, so you know I loved this post! I like what Donald Maass says about it - to layer the obvious emotion with the not-so-obvious. Like, at a funeral, you're sad, but you're also grateful, to have known the deceased. You may laugh at the memories. You may be glad you killed him.

Tee hee. Hey, it's Halloween, right?! 😉

]]> By: Jenny Hansen https://writersinthestormblog.com/2018/10/the-body-language-of-fear-beyond-lions-and-tigers-and-bears-oh-my/#comment-138278 Thu, 01 Nov 2018 05:52:03 +0000 https://writersinthestormblog.com/?p=35044#comment-138278 In reply to Lisa Hall-Wilson.

Thank you for being here! And your "surface scratch" has given us all a TON of information. 🙂

]]> By: dholcomb1 https://writersinthestormblog.com/2018/10/the-body-language-of-fear-beyond-lions-and-tigers-and-bears-oh-my/#comment-138277 Thu, 01 Nov 2018 05:26:15 +0000 https://writersinthestormblog.com/?p=35044#comment-138277 IT freaked me out a little. But, King is a master of those tales. Psycho still freaks me out, but I still watch it. I should know better than to watch it alone, though.

denise

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