Back in September, I published Emotional Beats: How to Easily Convert your Writing into Palpable Feelings. As promised, I will be posting the book on my blog. So, here is the next installment, continuing Part 3 of the book: Other Beats. This chapter deals with:
Walking and moving (I)
There are so many ways of describing walking, each of them conveying a certain emotion. For instance, consider the differences between the following: walk; tread; stride; stroll; saunter; march; amble; stagger; perambulate; ramble; meander; wander; dawdle; mosey; roam; rove; travel; journey; tramp; trudge; slog; plod; lumber; scramble; journey; shuffle; hobble; shamble; waddle; trundle; limp.
Here are some more examples:
- He swung around/spun around.
- She slinked over to him
- She hurtled into the room with all the momentum of a tidal wave, slamming the door behind her.
- He rushed to his feet.
- He barreled into the room
- Snake: I look up at the silhouette snaking towards me
- He lumbered down the hall.
- He fled the room.
- He stalked off.
- He stormed out of the room / he stormed off.
- He stomped down the hall.
- He rushed down the corridor.
- She sashayed off behind the curtain.
- She tottered along, unsteadily in her high heels.
- He tumbled down the alleyway.
- They followed her as she wove through the room.
- I’d better scurry.
- He flew out of the room.
- He slogged his way back into the room.
- Their boots crunched across the snow as they walked.
- His head lowered, he watched his feet step one after the other, his hands clasped behind his back to keep from trembling.
- His feet kicked up small drifts, ribboned by the wind. He needed this trek to sober up, his head feeling stuffed with wool and crowded with too many thoughts.
- He shooed her from the room.
- She stomped down the hallway to her bedroom and slammed the door behind her.
- He dawdled for a while, alone in the empty room.
- He made a beeline for the bar.
- He hoisted the satchel farther up his shoulder and continued walking.
- He fell into step beside her.
- He headed past her.
- He stepped off the elevator with purpose.
- He took four ground-eating steps.
- She backpedaled, heading for her boots.
- She slinked down the darkened corridor.
- They made their way through…
- He propelled me toward the far wall.
- She marched up to him.
- She stalked into the kitchen.
- She strode past him.
- He stormed across the parking lot.
- He made a break for the door.
- He loped forward into the thick fog.
- She picked her way over the rough ground.
- She slogged through a quicksand jungle.
- She strode forward.
- He thrust past him, shouldering him roughly aside and flinging hard against the palisade.
- He walked towards her, cresting the shingle ridge.
- She stepped away.
- She drew nearer.
- He leaned closer.
- She inched forward.
- He loomed closer.
- The children bounded down the stairs for dinner.
Next week: Walking and Moving (II). View all posts on the subject, or buy the book on Amazon – free on KU!
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Enjoy this much, and Iâm gonna buy this book, first of month.
I think itâll be quite helpful in the writing of my next book.
That is once I get the current book published. LOL!
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Thank you 😀
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Great book! Great ideas! Thanks for the blog and thanks for taking the time to share your knowledge with others. I have referred to your book several times over the last few weeks during my revision.
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Yay! I’m so glad to hear that 😀
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More helpful tips from Nicholas Rossis’ book, Emotional Beats. This one is on the topic of walking and moving.
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Thorough, helpful and imaginative as ever. Appreciated sirs.x
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Thank you so much 😀
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