Body language vs. dialogue…

Authors have a variety of tools and using them throughout a story can make it more interesting. I’m better at dialogue than body language, but maybe that’s because I think the first is more effective than the second. But the second can be effective in a mystery, though, because it might contradict the first…and that’s one positive for using a variety of tools.

A good detective, for example, learns to read body language, especially in interrogations, because there are tells there that contradict ...