[ SECRET POST #2305 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2305 ⌋

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

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[Team Starkid]


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[Denise Donovan, Regina Spektor]


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[A Very Potter Musical]


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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 01 pages, 016 secrets from Secret Submission Post #329.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

Re: Reading facial expressions

[(Anonymous)]

Part of it's probably a bad writing thing. When you get the kind of passage you mentioned, that's the author telling instead of showing. What you'd see more often in better writing would be a description of the actual expression or body language. So it would be more like:

"Charlie continued droning over the agenda for today's meeting, eventually mentioning the sandwiches missing from the communal fridge. Alice chose that moment to narrow her eyes at Bob, who raised his brows and grinned, his arms shrugging outward."

Whereas in fanfic, you're more likely to get:

"When Charlie got to the item of the missing sandwiches, Alice looked suspiciously at Bob, who she could tell wasn't really innocent because his grin was too wide."

Or possibly some deep analysis from Alice about how his mannerisms explain exactly when, how, and why he took the sandwiches. Unless Alice is Sherlock Holmes, it's a method of cheating at narration and is usually frowned upon in "not writing solely for fun" circles. Often it has to do with the author not being confident that the audience will correctly interpret indicators based on description alone.

Because, yeah, most people do perceive body language on a subconscious level. They don't actually think about their analyses of every quirk of lips and twitch of eyebrow, which is maybe why the narration of a character doing that sounds dishonest to you.

Re: Reading facial expressions

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, I'm thinking this is pretty much that! And that I've just gotten focused on the facial expressions as a separate thing, which doesn't work for me because I seem to pick up on those less.