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Excerpt: Someone, please take me away from this. Where are you Vern? Why did you leave me just when I needed you most?
Excerpt: So many faces, pleading for mercy yet receiving the sharp blade of his cutlass instead. Faces sliced by cuts and browned by bruises that stared at him now. Just standing there in the forest, a mighty crowd of grey-cloaked, angry, staring ghosts. He ran at them sweeping his blade through them.
Excerpt: NORTH POLE (AP) Sources at the North Pole Police Department (NPPD) confirmed today that the rumored death of Santa Claus is true. The jolly old elf and CEO of Santa’s Workshop, Inc. was found dead yesterday, sitting at a workbench in the toy production facility, by Mr. Jesse Timberline, the facility foreman.
Excerpt: I shook my head. "A philosopher can't give us tangibles. Can't describe what it is."
Excerpt: Timmy squirmed in his bed and balled his fists. He muttered, “It’s not fair. Daddy always takes her side.” The memory of his little sister’s tear-streaked, red face and green hair brought an impish grin to his lips.
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This month's question: How do you keep your stress level down? Send in your answer below!  Editors love feedback!
Last month's "Short Stories Newsletter (November 10, 2021)" question: Do you use body language to show your character's emotions? How did you show that?
Bikerider  : Interesting newsletter, Leger. I think it's important to give characters movement, whether they shoot up out of their chair in shock, or frown when another character acts silly. Bringing a character to life is very important. There is a reference book I have used over the years, in fact, it's pretty much dog eared now, that helps show character emotions and movements associated with those emotions. It's available on Amazon, (no, I don't make any money from it), I'm just passing on the information that others might find useful. The Emotion Thesaurus is a great help in bringing character's emotions and actions to life.
dogpack:saving 4 premium: DWG  : I appreciate your writing about watching people. I'm not a people watcher because my vision is limited, I'm legally blind. For a long time, I read about "show don't tell" which I kinda understood to mean using words to create a picture, but I had no idea about the information used to describe/show what was happening. I have a lot of editing to do. What you shared in this NL along with the WDC class I took, and some research I can now show readers what is happening. Many thanks for this valuable information.
tybo777: I have difficulty on how to even ANSWER this question…
TheBusmanPoet  : Body language is something you see with or without emotion. It's not something you "guess" at.
Kåre Enga in Udon Thani  : Very important if you ask me. I've watched British shows and wondered why they didn't have subtitles as it felt like a bunch of bobbing heads babbling about what? I wouldn't know. But I've watched a couple Thai TV shows where I could tell the relationships by their position to each other, the look on their face, how they expressed themselves. Directing? Script? Regardless it mattered.
🌕 HuntersMoon  : The question makes me squirm... 
jdennis  : Body language is one of those tools not readily interpreted across the entire spectrum of readers. A portion of readers will understand, yet an even more significant number may misunderstand if the body language is not apparent enough. Readers rely on the author to be transparent in their presentation of events, acts of the character, such as body language, and of course, emotions. Body language is one of many tools at the author's disposal and can be an indispensable aid to the reader in their interpretation. There are many of these tools, and the author must assign proportionate value to each with insight and experience as to the need of the moment in the story.
buddhangela's Psychotic Break  : I’ve been using a good bit of body language — more than words — for communication in a species I’ve created for my current NaNo project. Facial expressions, especially eyebrows, and the tension held in shoulders, as well as breathing patterns on chests have been important visual cues for these people. These important parts of their communication often get overlooked by other species trying to interact with them, despite knowing the spoken language.  It’s fun to discover as you write!
elephantsealer  : One of the things that writers use when writing is to correctly and to-the-point describe the characters in our stories. Because we, as writers, have talent, we should remember that one of the things we use in writing is to show and not to tell; which means show the actions in words that are appropriate to the action...
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