Carolyn Kaufman provided a list of body language cues in her book The Writer's Guide to Psychology. Here are a number of other body language references for creative writing.

If you're a fiction writer or storyteller of any stripe, I strongly, strongly encourage you to subscribe to the podcast feed for the Public Radio International program Selected Shorts. Every week, you get one to three short stories read by professional actors (names you know and names you don't; all excellent.) This is top-flight stuff, here, folks -- recent stories have been by authors such as Aimee Bender, James Thurber, Jorge Luis Borges, Philip K. Dick, George Saunders, Alice McDermott, T.C. Boyle, and Anton Chekhov, to name a few. Now, I know a lot of people who read this blog are more interested in genre rather than so-called "literary" stuff, and Selected Shorts only touches on genre works. Stiil, I urge you to give this a shot. The craft of storytelling is identical whether it's science fiction or suburbia... in fact, I will step out on a not-very-high ledge and say that a lot of genre writers could learn a thing or two about what makes a good story. No, of course I'm not talking to you! See, the point here is not just to listen to some of the finest short-form literature available... the point is, as a writer,…