May 31st, 2021
What’s Your Body Language IQ?
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Margie Lawson | Writing Craft
by Margie Lawson
Everyone needs to become an expert on body language. Misreading body language can lead to disgrace, disaster, and divorce.
Yikes!
How well do you read body language?
Take the 10 Point Quiz I created and find out!
May 26th, 2021
4 Ways Movement Effects Deep POV
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Lisa Hall Wilson | Writing Craft
By Lisa Hall-Wilson
Ever had an editor or beta reader flag the moving or disembodied body parts in your fiction?
Eyes roaming/flying/darting…
Fingers flying…
Hand creeping…
Feet following…
Arms folding…
Heart pounding/racing…
Now, I get it. It feels like editors are just splitting hairs and camping out on semantics because the reader will understand what you meant.… Read the post
March 24th, 2021
2 Ways to Help Readers Connect Emotionally With Your Characters
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Lisa Hall Wilson | Writing Craft
by Lisa Hall Wilson
When you begin to learn about Deep Point of View, one of the over-simplified “rules” that’s taught is to remove emotion words (hate, anxious, happy, sad, worried, etc.), but that leaves you with a BIGGER problem. How do you show the character's emotions once you’ve removed the emotion words?… Read the post
January 27th, 2021
4 Ways to Write Deeper with Personification
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Lisa Hall Wilson | Writing Craft
by Lisa Hall Wilson
I’m often asked how to go deeper in fiction. My jam is Deep Point of View, and I get that not everyone loves deep POV. That’s okay. However, if you’re looking for a really quick way to make your setting or characters come alive on the page, personification is one of those tools that every writer can use more effectively.… Read the post
September 23rd, 2020
Using Deep POV In Limited Third Person
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Lisa Hall Wilson | Writing Craft
by Lisa Hall-Wilson
This was a question that came up in my free Facebook group. What if you find deep POV too restrictive? What if deep POV doesn’t fit your storytelling style or the genre you’re writing?
That’s OK. Deep POV is a stylistic tool, you use the tool at your discretion.… Read the post
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