This week, when capturing descriptions of people in your notebook, pay particular attention to people's hands. Some things to get you started noticing:
- Length of fingers
- Jewelry, tattoos
- How well tended the fingernails are, color, length, shape
- Wrinkles
- Stains, dirt
- Prominence of knuckles
- Coloration, smooth or splotchy
- Prominence of veins
- Moles, warts, rashes
- Calluses, scars, blisters, scratches (and think about the causes)
- How they're held (tight, relaxed)
- How they move
- Whether the person need to use her hands to talk
This is a continuation of ideas for a Writer's notebook that I've been posting each Saturday. Click on Writer's notebook to the right to see them all.
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soft, blunt hands with the dark hair from his arm creeping halfway across the back
* slivers of white at the ends of her fingers
* wide silver ring on her smallest finger
* chewing with his fist resting against his mouth as though about to cough
* pinky extended he tapped his glasses into place and flicked at his cheeks
* hands with fingers like knobby twigs vined with prominent veins
* silver band as wide as her finger was thick
* making his point with a wagging finger
* hands hidden in his pockets
* fists shoved into his crooked arms
* pale splatter of freckles
* fingers held in a loose fist as she ate alone
* fingers tucked into her back pockets, thumbs twitching in freedom
* claws of her hands drooped at the ends of her arms
* hands tucked between her thighs
* bracelet of braided thread
* heavy workman’s hands smoothed his neatly trimmed hair
* veins like the branches of a slender tree on the backs of his hands
* idly stirring and stirring and stirring as he read
* finger brushing his upper lip, thumb brushing fingertips
* grasping hands clutched behind his back
* hands clutched high on her chest as she waited
* pinky supporting his clutched cup
* she held the pages with long clustered fingers
* fingers clutching the bottoms of her sleeves
* fingertips twitching as she walked
* thumbs tucked in his front pockets, fingers hanging on from the outside
* fingernail circles at the end of sausage fingers
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