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I stumbled across your blog while looking for some writing tips. I was wondering, how do you portray emotions through actions without using the emotion itself? I mean something like, "she angrily shut the door" when I say that. Basically, how do you portray emotions subtly through actions?

Showing emotion through action.

That’s actually a great example sentence because you make one easy change to turn it from an expository adverb to a emotion portraying action like this:

she angrily shut the door -> she slammed the door

You can come up with actions like these in a variety of ways. One tried and true method is to take an adverb-verb pair and find a stronger verb. Examples:

angrily shut/placed/moved -> slammed

sadly leaned -> slumped

nervously moved -> fidgeted

hungrily ate -> gobbled

grumpily walked -> trudged

Another great thing to do, especially as a writing exercise, is to simply consider things people commonly do what they feel certain emotions. Examples:

Sadness: People might draw into corners or under blankets, let down their hair, forget things like meals, gravitate toward pets, slump or curl up, set their head in their hands or on their knees, wipe their eyes, move more sluggishly, etc.

Happiness: People might move more energetically, dance or hum or whistle, twirl things around their fingers, make larger hand gestures or take up more room when they lounge, etc.

Nerves/fear: People might fidget, tap their fingers or chew their nails, fix their outfit even when there’s nothing wrong, pace, start doing something and then forget to finish, etc. 

Remember that individual characters will have their own unique ways of dealing with emotion though! One character may slam a door, while another may focus so hard on closing it softly that their shoulders shake, while another may leave the door open specifically because they know the person they’re angry with will have to come close it afterward.

Because people (and characters) aren’t carbon copies, we usually have to use a variety of means to show emotion. Well chosen actions alone are great, but facial expressions, tone of voice, dialogue structure, and (for point of view characters) internal thoughts can go a long way in helping round out the emotion in a scene.

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The House of the Future. Motorola advertisements from the early 1960s, illustrated by Charles Schridde.

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Eric Nam for VOGUE

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In early observance of the annual International Transgender Day of Visibility, I present to you all: my non-binary and transgender faceclaim directory!

The directory is currently sortable by gender and ethnicity (broadly and regionally).

Now, I’ll present a few points:

The main objective of this directory is to introduce the RPC to faceclaims that have not yet been used by the vast majority of its members. It may also inspire us resource makers to create content for these faceclaims that others can use.

This directory is a perpetual work in progress. The faceclaim count currently stands at 70, but I will continue to update it as often as humanly possible.

If you would like to contribute a faceclaim or two, please message me! I’m open to all suggestions. My goal is to establish a vast array of non-binary and transgender faceclaims hailing from all genders, ethnicities, and regions.

Please, if you answer any FC help questions or make any resources and use this directory as a reference, be kind enough to provide credit. This has required a lot of research and time and I would like that to be recognized.

Thank you all for your support! I’m thrilled to reach 500 FOLLOWERS (!!!!!!) and look forward to introducing the larger project for which this directory will serve as a stepping stone.

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@banglatown’s archive

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WEN QING MDZS Women Appreciation | W1D2

“I didn’t tell you this before. But today, something needs to be said, because I might not get another chance. Sorry and thank you.” 

___________________________ To honour your beautiful soul and the sacrifice you made. This might turn into a small series of the women of MDZS/CQL. Jiang Yanli

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Wang Ju in Inbal Dror 

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Manny Jacinto | DA MAN Magazine (Oct/Nov 2019)

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@mdzsnet ‘one year with the untamed’ wei wuxian + greek words of love (insp)

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01/27/19 // in the woods somewhere // ig

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@mdzsnet​ ‘one year with the untamed’ event favourite scene → the most dramatic entrance ever (ep. 47)

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QUEER EYE | 5.06

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Meng Ziyi studio update (200618)