Prosody

Robert Drake on January 18, 2009 in Reading for Writers, Writing Tools/Advice

If facial expressions say more than a 1000 words, than we can cut out a thousand words by writing about facial expressions, yes? Maybe not, but prosody…what a great word! Sometimes you read something and it just overflows with…well…prosody. Tapping into little things like facial expressions is a good way to furfill that arch-commandment of show, not tell.

Here’s another article explaining just how people respond to these little facial queues.

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