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Words to describe facial expressions

Absent: preoccupied

Agonized: as if in pain or tormented

Alluring: attractive, in the sense of arousing desire

Appealing: attractive, in the sense of encouraging goodwill and/or interest

Beatific: blissful

Black: angry or sad, or hostile

Bleak: hopeless

Blinking: surprise, or lack of concern

Blithe: carefree, lighthearted, or heedlessly indifferent

Brooding: anxious and gloomy

Bug eyed: frightened or surprised

Chagrined: humiliated or disappointed

Cheeky: cocky, insolent

Cheerless: sad

Choleric: hot-tempered, irate

Darkly: with depressed or malevolent feelings

Deadpan: expressionless, to conceal emotion or heighten humor

Despondent: depressed or discouraged

Doleful: sad or afflicted

Dour: stern or obstinate

Dreamy: distracted by daydreaming or fantasizing

Ecstatic: delighted or entranced

Faint: cowardly, weak, or barely perceptible

Fixed: concentrated or immobile

Gazing: staring intently

Glancing: staring briefly as if curious but evasive

Glazed: expressionless due to fatigue or confusion

Grim: fatalistic or pessimistic

Grave: serious, expressing emotion due to loss or sadness

Haunted: frightened, worried, or guilty

Hopeless: depressed by a lack of encouragement or optimism

Hostile: aggressively angry, intimidating, or resistant

Hunted: tense as if worried about pursuit

Jeering: insulting or mocking

Languid: lazy or weak

Leering: sexually suggestive

Mild: easygoing

Mischievous: annoyingly or maliciously playful

Pained: affected with discomfort or pain

Peering: with curiosity or suspicion

Peeved: annoyed

Pleading: seeking apology or assistance

Quizzical: questioning or confused

Radiant: bright, happy

Sanguine: bloodthirsty, confident

Sardonic: mocking

Sour: unpleasant

Sullen: resentful

Vacant: blank or stupid looking

Wan: pale, sickly

Wary: cautious or cunning

Wide eyed: frightened or surprised

Withering: devastating

Wrathful: indignant or vengeful

Wry: twisted or crooked to express cleverness or a dark or ironic feeling

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“Everybody has a secret world inside of them. All of the people of the world, I mean everybody. No matter how dull and boring they are on the outside, inside them they’ve all got unimaginable, magnificent, wonderful, stupid, amazing worlds. Not just one world. Hundreds of them. Thousands maybe.”

— Neil Gaiman (via quotemadness)

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Therapy App ➤ Stay Motivated ➤ Visit: PsychologyDaily.com

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In Greek myth, the children of Leto are Apollo and Artemis — the shining twins. He is the god of the sun, archery, poetry (!!), healing, and many other things; she is the goddess of the moon, hunting, and animals, among others. Basically they’re both multi talented and very badass. 🌞 🌝 🏹

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Cheat Sheets for Writing Body Language

We are always told to use body language in our writing. Sometimes, it’s easier said than written. I decided to create these cheat sheets to help you show a character’s state of mind. Obviously, a character may exhibit a number of these behaviours. For example, he may be shocked and angry, or shocked and happy. Use these combinations as needed.

by Amanda Patterson

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Who are you?

You, mortal, crowned gifted mind;

cloaked in blue.

What stories shall you weave in

rhapsody?

What symphony born within -

Do you sing

but for a soul audience?

Silenced doubt.

Or does your voice carry high -

Free to breath -

Truth, fears, shared to peers beside.

Perhaps both;

You're the quiet and the noise

echoing;

Soothing keys; discordant strings.

Remember

the passion, yours, as it rings;

"Again, sing."

m. g. o.

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Life's Rule of Hue

Varied shades walk throughout life;

Trod the same path yet face different strife.

Be lighter; you're richer.

Be darker; fall farther,

Surrounded by dust, dressed in dirt,

Yet fair claim marble, donned in silken skirts.

An unsaid rule that keeps souls collared,

Known to to all but the colored:

Color defines;

Skin dictates life.

m. g. o.

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"How does an angel with

no wings learn to fly? "

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Whose hands are full

always fluttering and fretting

yet still clinging to her children,

whispering lessons to get by.

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This angel is strong;

flying high by my side,

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Bleak days - they fade,

to falter - she'd pick herself up

and push on with life,

head always high.

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Now that I'm older

and the world moves so much faster

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I wish to hold her hands and take her

to places she'd seen only in dreams,

grant the wishes of her years younger,

without any reasons why besides to share with her a message of mind:

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"Thank you

for loving me;

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for accepting me, faults and all;

for placating me, when the dark swallowed me whole;

for encouraging me, to dream, to fly;

for being with me, flying side by side."

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Wingless angel, what are you?

Kindness and compassion -

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two of the most important things in life,

without which we'll never know

how to love; how to be kind; how to build a bond

like ours - you and I.

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Dear wingless angel,

continue to fly by my side.

m. g. o.

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The gods of old do not fade,

Rather they still linger here present day.

Simply turn towards a mirror and look upon your face.

m. g. o.

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Civil War

It's only one mistake,

Another failure added to the pile.

a momentary loss

Another knot in Fate's cruel string

brought by one bad day.

running on and on down life's mile.

This is not the end,

Patience thinning for the curtain close.

so put on a smile.

Wipe the lie that fails to match the eyes.

Tomorrow - try again.

Empty words heard too many before.

m. g. o.

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According to hymn and rhyme,

Angels exist only in heaven on high.

Yet I must disagree, for I oft meet

Heavenly souls striding along the mortal streets.

m. g. o.

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The Worst Critic

The world is holdings it's breath;

Watching, waiting,

A crowd unseen but to me,

Asking

"What comes next?"

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Will she fall?

Will she rise?

Will she give up -

Again? Mark it in thin lines.

Self-made judgement echo within a bleak ivory hall.

m. g. o.

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We have calcium in our bones, iron in our veins, carbon in our souls, and nitrogen in our brains. 93 percent stardust, with souls made of flames, we are all just stars that have people names.

~ Nikita Gill

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“Understand me. I’m not like an ordinary world. I have my madness, I live in another dimension and I do not have time for things that have no soul.” ― Charles Bukowski

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“People’s opinions of us will always change, but how we see ourselves will stay with us forever.”

— Ralph Smart

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I thought that I could make you proud,

Stiffen my back,

Face the crowd;

Sing your songs and dance to your tunes,

I thought that was all I had to do.

Weather the jeers and the sneers,

Swallow down my tears and choke back my fears,

I thought that was all I had to do.

All for you.

But I was wrong

To bend and break my bones for your songs,

Weathering words of hurt and scorn,

Yours that scream of how I shouldn't have been born.

I thought that I could make you proud.

But I know see that goal will never be;

Too far for me to reach.

You - the forever empty seat.

So I see now,

'Tis time to take my leave

of you; and take my final bow.

m. g. o.

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