The Writer's Guidebook to Facial Descriptions and Body Language

by S.L. Lethe

Portraying how a character looks, feels, and acts is one of the hardest aspects of fiction writing. Readers are always looking for well-written characters with depth and flaws that make them, not only more human, but unique. Trying to write these characters in a way that’s compelling can be difficult and tedious, resulting in two-dimensional characters and boring sentences. If this sounds like you, do not despair. Within The Writer’s Guidebook to Facial Descriptions and Body Language, you will discover a rich source of examples that can help you develop your characters, avoid lazy writing, and enrich your book. Inside you’ll discover • Hundreds of examples of facial descriptions • Hundreds of ways to express body language • Hundreds of ways to describe facial and body characteristics • Examples of adding emotion into your sentences • A comprehensive list of dialogue tags • Ways to improve dialogue • Hundreds of ways to express what your characters are feeling • Numerous ways of expressing eye, skin, and hair colour and hairstyles for POC characters • And much more! Divided into several easy-to-follow sections, The Writer’s Guidebook to Facial Descriptions and Body Language is a must-read for any author wanting to add depth to their characters and descriptions.

69 pages, Kindle Edition

Published June 25, 2018

Reviews

[Emanuelle Mathieu · Rating 2 out of 5]

I had such high hopes for this Guidebook, thinking it would help me in my writing. Unfortunately what I purchased was a poor quality list of things. one word per line on an entire page. No labels, no guide as to what I'm reading, there is no easy way to sear a certain emotion or body language like I'd hoped it would do. Just a jumble of words and sentences, listed in a disorganised manner. This could be so much more than it is. I will never open this book because I won't find anything I'm looking for without reading the entirety of its content. Disappointing.

[April Taylor · Rating 4 out of 5]

Short but good list to help writers




This provides a nice base list of descriptive words and lines to help authors and writers write body language and facial
description. Very short book but delivers what the title says.

[Mageela · Rating 3 out of 5]

Not what I was looking for. I thought it would help me get beyond the mundane descriptions but it let me down. Good for a newbie

[Francene Carroll]

If you like checklists this might work for you. I didn't find the organisation or examples very useful.