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Case ([personal profile] case) wrote in [community profile] fandomsecrets2015-03-14 03:39 pm

[ SECRET POST #2992 ]


⌈ Secret Post #2992 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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02.
[Grand Theft Auto 5]


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03.
[Zipang]


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04.
[Ricky Gervais]


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05.
[Tokyo Babylon/X1999]


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06.
[Dexter]


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07.
[The Mentalist]


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08.
[The Truth - Terry Pratchett]


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09.
[It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia]


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10.
[Douglas Adams]


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11.
[Black Books]


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12.
[Lucky Star]


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13.
[Edward Petherbridge as Lord Peter Wimsey]


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14.
[Ga-In, Brown Eyed Girls]


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15.
[Oz the Great and Powerful]


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16.
[Colin Baker]


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17.
[9 Hours, 9 Persons, 9 Doors]


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18.
[Yatterman Night]


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19.
[Johnny the Homicidal Maniac]


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20.
[Blake's 7]


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21.
[Game Grumps]


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22.
[Alexis Denisof]







Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 07 pages, 170 secrets from Secret Submission Post #428.
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Re: Writing Question

[personal profile] sarillia 2015-03-14 09:28 pm (UTC)(link)
Dialogue and the body language that goes along with it are some of my favorite parts of writing! Studying body language might be a good place to start, and different styles of speaking. Those things can give a lot of insight into a character.

Constantly interrupting people and talking over them could be a sign of arrogance or impatience and then the way other people react to that will say something about them, whether they lose their temper and snap at them or quietly let them say what they want to say. Someone who is feeling uncomfortable could be fidgeting a lot, playing with bits of their clothes or their hair, or always moving around to sit in a new position. Actually that moving around thing could also be a sign of some kind of disability (among many other things obviously); that's something I do because I get to a point where my joints are complaining about staying in that position and I need to find a way to arrange them that they're not sick of already. A dreamy sort of person could get lost in thought a lot and trail off at the end of sentences. Or trailing off like that can be a sign of insecurity because they're not at all confident in what they're saying. Someone who thinks they're smarter than they really are might try to use big words but use them wrong. Some people might be really talkative around their close friends but other people can hardly get a word out of them. There's posture too; do they sit very prim and proper or splay all over? That could help with the setting too, because maybe they're in a really nice place and one of them is afraid to touch anything and is sitting on the edge of the seat trying to disturb it as little as possible.

I'll shut up now. And obviously going on about any of this too much is a problem, but I love little touches like that.