Excercises and Ruts

Rachelle Gardner, literary agent with Wordserve Literary, has some advice on her blog on how to work yourself out of a writing rut as well as improve your writing. She has a list of ten, all of which are worth checking out.

My favourite was #3, which was to make a file of body language details and facial expressions. I read her blog after coming home from a restaurant where I saw this guy doing all these hideous things while on a date with this (poor) girl. We’re talking wiping his nose with his hand, coughing across the table (he didn’t cover his mouth) and chewing on his pinkie. And I only watched him for about a minute. Yikes! You bet I created a file and his little quirks went straight into it. Yowzers!

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I used to tuck things like this away in my memory, but after reading Rachelle’s blog, I made a file. It’s going to be so much fun collecting tidbits to use later! (Especially once I get around to reading ‘Body Language for Dummies’. Think of all the wonderful notes I’ll have then!)

Enjoy!