Lawson Writing Academy | Writers In The Storm https://writersinthestormblog.com A Blog On Writing Sun, 02 Feb 2025 06:07:05 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.1 https://writersinthestormblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/WITS-Logo-150x150.jpg Lawson Writing Academy | Writers In The Storm https://writersinthestormblog.com 32 32 What’s Your Body Language IQ? https://writersinthestormblog.com/2021/05/whats-your-body-language-iq/ https://writersinthestormblog.com/2021/05/whats-your-body-language-iq/#comments Mon, 31 May 2021 10:03:00 +0000 https://writersinthestormblog.com/?p=42641 How well do you read body language? Margie Lawson helps you evaluate your body language IQ and shows how characters' behavioral clues drive scenes.

The post What’s Your Body Language IQ? first appeared on Writers In The Storm.]]> https://writersinthestormblog.com/2021/05/whats-your-body-language-iq/feed/ 45 Margie’s Rule #9:  Cliché Play https://writersinthestormblog.com/2015/10/margies-rule-9-cliche-play/ https://writersinthestormblog.com/2015/10/margies-rule-9-cliche-play/#comments Mon, 12 Oct 2015 11:02:17 +0000 https://writersinthestormblog.com/?p=22366 Margie Lawson I am uber-impressed with the WITS blog and the WITS bloggers. I’m always honored to be a guest. Thank you!  Most writers know to avoid clichés. Every basic how-to book for writers includes a section on avoiding clichés. Those experts refer to clichés as lazy writing. So do I. Clichés represent weak writing. […]

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