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Body language Source:  Pixabay For this weeks story lab I chose to go to the  Writers Write website  and look at article that intrigued me. One article that caught my eye was "Cheat Sheets for Writing Body Language." This caught my interest because I believe being able to write the body language of a character in a way that the reader feels the emotions going on it important. A story that has well written body language will really bring the reader into the story and add such great detail to the story. In this article it give five tips on why writing body language is useful. Tip one is to use body language to add more depth to the dialogue of the characters in the story. Tip two is that body language is useful to use because more than half of all human communication is no actually verbal. The third tip is that body language will help show how the emotions of the characters will affect the actions of that character. Tip four is to use body language will allow the reader...

Coffee and Journal Source:  Max Pixel For this week's blog I decided to do a story lab over two different articles from the  Writers Write Website. These two articles that I chose to read about were "3 Simple Ways to Kickstart Your Writing" and "Create Power Paragraphs for Stronger Storytelling." The reason I chose to read these two articles is to help improve my writing skills in general. Writing has not always been my best suite so I would like to improve it any way that I can. 3 Simple Ways to Kickstart Your Writing  by Anthony Ehlers This article is about how to get out of that writing slump that happens every so often. Sometimes you will be sitting at your desk and just nothing will help you get a story out on paper. So this article has three useful tips to get out of that. The first useful tip given is to do what they call "Suess it up." By "Suess it up" they me that you should write a fun poem like one of the famous poems by Dr...