Words for Impelling Oneself

As a writer, the words you use for impelling the people you write about can tell the reader a lot about them. 

"Walk" is such a generic term, and there are so many descriptive words you can use in place of it. 

Does the agitated mother walk to her children who are fighting with one another again? Or does she stride?

Does the killer walk slowly up to his unsuspecting prey, or does he stalk them?

Would a laid back man walk along the road, or should he amble?

Did the terrified girl walk quickly away or did she bolt?

The following list is a gift my screenwriter sister was given by Screenbrokers (http://screenbrokers.com/) and I'm passing it on to my fellow writers to show how much I appreciate you all. I'm confident you'll reciprocate somehow, sometime, by sharing a tip of your own.

Ambles barrels bolts Bounces bounds bowls Canters clambers coasts Cruises dances darts Dashes dives dodges Drifts edges flies Flits gallops glides Hightails hikes hobbles Hoofs hurdled hurries Hustles inches jaunts Jogs locomotes lumbers Maneuvers marches moves Navigates oozes paces Plows prances promenades Races rambles retreats                        Roams roves rushes Sashays sails saunters Scampers scoots scuttles Scurries shambles shoves Shuffles sidles slogs slip/slides slithers skipped Snakes sprints squeezes Squirms squishes staggers Steamrolls steams strolls Stomps swaggers sweeps Swishes toddles traipses Tramps travels traverses Trots trudges veers Waddles walks wanders Weaves wends wiggles Worms wriggles zigzags
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Published on October 20, 2012 08:44
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Cynthia Ainsworthe Wonderful article! Enjoyed every word. Keep those blogs coming!


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