Writing tips # 6 - The Body
Hey, hi everyone! I'm back again with yet another segment of Writing tips. Today I'm going to chat about something many struggle to describe. The body.
Below will be several categories containing words synonymous with descriptors used when explaining someone's body. Hopefully, now y'all won't end up struggling for an hour like I have trying to figure out a socially correct way to explain that this particular character is obese :D
Thin
Angular, bony, emaciated, dainty, ethereal, frail, gangly, lanky, lean, malnourished, narrow, petite, puny, rawboned, scrawny, skeletal, skin-and-bone, skinny, slender, slight, slim, stick, twiggy, underweight.
Heavy
Beefy, big-boned, bloated, brawny, broad, bulging, bulky, burly, chubby, chunky, dense, elephantine, full-bodied, gargantuan, heavy-set, husky, lumpy, massive, obese, oversized, paunchy, plump, plumpish, portly, potbellied, pudgy, robust, rotund, round, shapeless, solid, stocky, stout, thick, wide.
Short
Compact, dwarfed, dwarfish, little, low, miniature, pint-sized, runty, squat, stunted, stubby, stumpy, tiny, undersized, wee.
Tall
Alpine, beanstalk, gangly, giant, lanky, lofty, skyscraping, stick, stretched, towering.
Weak
Decrepit, delicate, effeminate, emaciated, feeble, flaccid, fragile, frail, puny, sickly.
Strong
Beefy, brawny, burly, firm, herculean, huge, hulky, husky, muscular, powerful, ripped, robust, rugged, shredded, solid, stalwart, stout, strapping, tough, well-built.
Fit
Athletic, hardy, healthy, hearty, shapely, robust, toned, trim.
As always I hope this helps. Have a wonderful day and let your days be blessed as the best! <3
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hi user miloicy. i want to play a game (im being held at gunpoint)
i want you to draw harbin fried pork and jade leech as maid catboys. what are they doing? i have no idea. go wild with it. im giving you free reign. it could be completely wholesome. or it could be downright despicable.... go wild with it
ps. keep your doors locked. i know you have a food soul i want..........
got way too into them committing catboy crimes so have 2 instead (hope this appeases your gunner)
"despicable"... did you imagine something else instead? something that involves MINIONS??? truly despicable.
haha bro's in my walls. i know youre here, waiting to steal crabby. it was on a whim that he came home, believe me. the spirit of crab truly lives on through my gacha luck
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Writing Tips #2 - Lighting
You ever sit there for half an hour trying to think of another way to say "this surface is bright?"
Yeah, me too. Well, no more! Without further adieu, let's talk about lighting. Below is a quick list thrown together to help make describing light, objects affected by light, or the absence of light easier to describe when setting a scene.
Bright
Ablaze, aglow, beaming, blazing, blinding, bright, brilliant, flaming, glaring, glowing, radiant, vivid.
Dark
Abyssal, caliginous, dark, dingy, dusky, gloomy, ill-lit, inky, jet-black, moonless, overcast, pitch black, shadowy, shady, starless, sunless, tenebrous, unlit, unilluminated.
Dim
Bleary, blurred, cloudy, dreary, dusky, faded, faint, foggy, fuzzy, gloomy, gray, lackluster, murky, opaque, overcast, pale, shadowy, shady, tarnished, unclear.
Dull
Ashen, cloudy, colorless, dead, dismal, drab, dreary, dusky, faded, flat, hazy, indistinct, lackluster, low, matte, mousy, muddy, murky, muted, obscure, opaque, plain, subdued, toned-down, unlit.
Shiny
Burnished, crystal, dazzling, flickering, glassy, gleaming, glimmering, glinting, glistening, glittering, glossy, jeweled, polished, satiny, sheeny, shimmering, shining, silvery, sparkling, twinkling.
With these in mind, hopefully, none of you will struggle like I have :P
As always, have a wonderful day! I hope this helps <3
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