Emotional Beats: Head & Shoulders, Knees & Toes

Here is a great post fro Nicholas Rossis on the topic of using body movements to convey emotions.

Nicholas C. Rossis

Back in September, I published Emotional Beats: How to Easily Convert your Writing into Palpable Feelings. As promised, I will be posting the book on my blog. So, here is the next installment, featuring Part 2 of the book: Body Parts.

Hands and legs

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An easy way to show what someone is thinking is through their feet: whatever they’re pointing at, that’s where their attention lies. Other ways to use hands and legs in your beats include:

• Tenting his short fingers…
• With a flourish, she brandished a letter dramatically.
• He brushed a hand under his nose like a child with a cold.
• His hand jutted out over the edge of the bed.
• He lifted his hands.
• He spread his hands.
• He leaned on one elbow.

Nods, head, and back

How about using our characters’ entire head to illustrate a point?

• He let his forehead…

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