Active Verbs: Words to Spice Up Any Prose

One of the biggest problems with amateur writing is the use of run of the mill verbiage.  I have seen it time and again when students write fiction or fiction writers pay me to edit their work.  How much better could a piece of prose be if we were to be more creative with something

The Necessity of Kinesics

K is for kinesics, which in the study of linguistics means the analysis of how body movements can communicate meaning.  As a writer this is something that we must learn how to use as well as we use dialogue to communicate characterization, mood and tone. I have read plenty of writing where the writer has grasped