Emotional Beats: Chairs, windows, and furniture

Check out this great post from Nicholas Rossis on the use of furniture in your writing from his blog.

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, continuing Part 3 of the book: Other Beats. This one deals with:

Chairs, windows, and furniture

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He stood up. She sat down. I don’t know about you, but I’ve had a pretty hard time describing these two simple actions in a non-yawn-inducing way. Until I came across these:

• He sank into his chair.
• She rested her elbows on the table.
• He shifted in his seat.
• She slumped in the chair.
• She shuffled in her seat to better sit upright and rubbed away the tears with the sleeve of her fleecy jacket.
• I sat bolt upright in bed.
• He pulled himself to his feet.
• He raised himself to his feet, with a loud grunt…

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