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Bookmark or Share- Writing with Color: Words for Skin ToneLike TVTropes, Springhole, and Wikipedia, an author could spend hours following one link (Black Panther Fanfic Writing) to the next (Bad to have a Disabled Love Interest?) and the next (Baby Banks in an Infertile World, Eugenics and Racism) into the wee hours of the morning, only this one is tailored specifically to people who want their fiction to have as much positive impact as possible on ...
- Is there a word for this laugh? - Creative Writing ForumsIs there a word for that laugh you do, where you don't actually laugh, you just blow a bit of air out of your nose. Closest I can think of is "snort",...
- Describing Muscular Beauty? - Creative Writing ForumsSo for a powerful man thats muscled i would print out a picture of a bull and list words to fit what the animal looks like. For a woman i would look more at a greyhound or Cheetah which has a more graceful power and leaner muscle to it. Oh also have to agree about the pearl necklace, thats a whole different subject there!
- What to Call a Magical & Non-Magical Person in a Fantasy Novel?This is the rare sort of situation where I would actually recommend playing with a thesaurus. Starting with one word--let's say "mundane" for the non-magic-users--and wandering from word to word in a thesaurus (most easily done in a electronic one, which is easy enough online) could give you some fresh ideas of how people think of the mundane versus the exotic, and whatever other concepts come ...
- Words to describe somebody who is always serious?I knew a girl once, she never laughed along with everyone else at a joke; she just looked at everyone else with a blank look on her face, then minutes later ( the conversation could by now have turned serious) for no apparent reason she would burst out laughing, when asked what she was laughing at she would refere back to the joke; she had just got it.
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