Post by Set on Jun 11, 2012 16:48:26 GMT -5
Made this for a friend, thought I'd post it here. n_n
These are things you can incorporate into a post to make them bigger:
- Facial expressions.
I'm very sure that in every single one of my posts I mention at least once something about a character's eyes, brows, lips, or features/face. It makes me feel repetitive sometimes, because I know I mention expressions a lot in my writing; this is because I'm an incredibly visual person, so when I write I visualize what's going on, a big part of which is how everybody looks as they're saying or doing whatever they're saying/doing. '__' So I'm rather incessantly mentioning where a character's gaze is wandering, what their eyes are conveying, what their eyebrows and lips are doing, etc.
- Thought processes.
Whether third person, first person, or anywhere in between, generally when you're writing about people you have the perspective to detail at least a little bit of what's going on in their head. Sometimes with characters I like to keep a little more mysterious, or characters who have an unusual thought process that would be difficult to put into words, I skimp on this aspect a bit more. Like with my character Devan - a sociopath who, as you might imagine, has a rather unconventional and even almost animalistic thought process - a majority of his thoughts are more subconscious than conscious or worded - because he's rather instinctual, not unlike an animal. Logical, but instinctual. So on the occasion I detail his thoughts it's more.. vague. Broad stuff like "he wondered if blah blah blah." and not detailing it much more than that, lol. So with Devan, there is just about no dialogue thought process, i.e. the first person stuff you typically see in italics, like "There's no way she could think that about me. I'm just blah blah blah, he thought".
- Background.
Kind of ties into thought process sometimes. To throw some character background, character development or even just filler into a post, you can start on a little tangent rant detailing what a character is like and/or their past experiences. Sometimes this can spill into a brief, usually small paragraph-long story on the side that gives an example. Like,
"So-And-So was already beginning to feel tired. She wasn't one for jogging; she prefered walking to jogging. In gym class, So-And-So used to... blah blah blah"
Side stories like this can be relatively irrelevant to what's going on in the plot, but they help offer some character background, and can just make your post bigger if that's what you're looking to do lol.
- Setting.
This is probably more basic than any of the other stuff, lol. Just describing what's going on around the characters can make for good filler, even a paragraph if you have a clear idea of the environment. The time of day, the lighting, temperature, who else is around and what they're doing, the overall feel or vibe of the area. Or for a more broad take, or possibly background, what's been going on lately in the area - for example rumors at school, or crime or events in the city.
These are things you can incorporate into a post to make them bigger:
- Facial expressions.
I'm very sure that in every single one of my posts I mention at least once something about a character's eyes, brows, lips, or features/face. It makes me feel repetitive sometimes, because I know I mention expressions a lot in my writing; this is because I'm an incredibly visual person, so when I write I visualize what's going on, a big part of which is how everybody looks as they're saying or doing whatever they're saying/doing. '__' So I'm rather incessantly mentioning where a character's gaze is wandering, what their eyes are conveying, what their eyebrows and lips are doing, etc.
- Thought processes.
Whether third person, first person, or anywhere in between, generally when you're writing about people you have the perspective to detail at least a little bit of what's going on in their head. Sometimes with characters I like to keep a little more mysterious, or characters who have an unusual thought process that would be difficult to put into words, I skimp on this aspect a bit more. Like with my character Devan - a sociopath who, as you might imagine, has a rather unconventional and even almost animalistic thought process - a majority of his thoughts are more subconscious than conscious or worded - because he's rather instinctual, not unlike an animal. Logical, but instinctual. So on the occasion I detail his thoughts it's more.. vague. Broad stuff like "he wondered if blah blah blah." and not detailing it much more than that, lol. So with Devan, there is just about no dialogue thought process, i.e. the first person stuff you typically see in italics, like "There's no way she could think that about me. I'm just blah blah blah, he thought".
- Background.
Kind of ties into thought process sometimes. To throw some character background, character development or even just filler into a post, you can start on a little tangent rant detailing what a character is like and/or their past experiences. Sometimes this can spill into a brief, usually small paragraph-long story on the side that gives an example. Like,
"So-And-So was already beginning to feel tired. She wasn't one for jogging; she prefered walking to jogging. In gym class, So-And-So used to... blah blah blah"
Side stories like this can be relatively irrelevant to what's going on in the plot, but they help offer some character background, and can just make your post bigger if that's what you're looking to do lol.
- Setting.
This is probably more basic than any of the other stuff, lol. Just describing what's going on around the characters can make for good filler, even a paragraph if you have a clear idea of the environment. The time of day, the lighting, temperature, who else is around and what they're doing, the overall feel or vibe of the area. Or for a more broad take, or possibly background, what's been going on lately in the area - for example rumors at school, or crime or events in the city.
