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Writing and Describing Physical Appearance:

How to Describe Facial Expressions

How to Describe a Character's Appearance

How to Write a Character with a Prosthetic

Body Language Descriptions

Body Language Descriptions part 2

Writing Dialogue:

How to Describe a Character's Speech

How to Write Dialogue for a Stuttering Character

How to Write a Mute/Non-Speaking Character

What to Do with Too Much Dialogue

How to Write a Character with an Accent

Terms and Phrases:

Pirate Terms and Phrases

Cowboy/Wild West Terms and Phrases

Writing Genres and Subgenres:

Murder Mystery

Slow-Burn Romance

Writing Villains, Monsters, and other Antagonists:

How to Write a Monster

How to Write a Good Villain

How to Make Readers Fear Your Villain

How to Write an Unreliable Narrator

Serial Killer Signature Ideas

How to Give an Eldritch Horror Entity a Voice

Writing Protagonists and Side Characters:

How to Write a Sacrificial Character

How to Write a Bully with an Opportunity for Redemption

How to Write a Mermaid

How to Write a Pre-Teen

Writing and Describing Emotions and Disorders:

Nightmares and Sleep Paralysis

Panic Attacks

How to Write a Character with an Eating Disorder

How to Write a Paranoid Character

Different Ways to Describe Fear

How to Write a Controlling Character

Writing and Describing Threatening Conditions:

How to Write a Character that has been Poisoned

How to Write Hypothermia and Frostbite

Writing and Describing Character Interactions:

How to Describe Emotionally Distant Parents

Ways for Characters to Get to Know Each Other

How to Describe Characters in Cold Weather

How to Write a Band Performance that Flows with Inner Dialogue

bookish asks

sometimes you need dialogue tags and don't want to use the same four

"….Okay, are any of the dishes not poisoned?! Is there anyone at this feast who did not poison anything?!"

One of these days the yearning is gonna get them both killed

And this here is what we in the writing industry call "a display of hubris that may or may not have karmic consequences but is very, very fun".

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꒰ If I had known who Godot is, I would have written it in the script . . . !

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Crowning of a Knight (past vs present)