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Last month, I mentioned the launch of Emotional Beats: How to Easily Convert your Writing into Palpable Feelings. As promised, here is the next installment from the book. It lists beats you can use to convey:

Indifference

Indifference can be hard to convey through a beat because you’re really describing the lack of a physical reaction. And you can have your characters shrug only so much before they start looking like they’re having a seizure. Some useful beats are:

• She looked down at him through laced fingers.
• She steepled her long fingers together.
• He absent-mindedly cracked his knuckles.
• He dismissed her with a commanding gesture.
• She pressed her hands to her cheeks.
• She made a steeple of her fingers.
• She sent an indifferent glance about the room.
• He cast only the slightest of glances to the woman before focusing back to [object].
• He yawned.

Shrugs

• She…