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Hannah Faoileán replied to the thread Craft Chat Character Descriptions-who else needs practice?.I feel the same as you. Quite a few of them have a 'Tell' clause, as if the reader can't work out the meaning of the action for themselves. e..g. Her fingers drummed a steady rhythm on the tabletop, betraying her growing impatience. There are... -
Hannah Faoileán replied to the thread Craft Chat Character Descriptions-who else needs practice?.I feel the same as you. Quite a few of them have a 'Tell' clause, as if the reader can't work out the meaning of the action for themselves. e..g. Her fingers drummed a steady rhythm on the tabletop, betraying her growing impatience. There are...
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Hannah Faoileán reacted to Sedayne's post in the thread Craft Chat Character Descriptions-who else needs practice? with
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I agree. And I think that's the point, for me at least. I want to be able to show characterisation in how the person behaves or what they say rather than describing them outright and risk breaking that 4th wall. -
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It's hard to judge these examples, I believe they are from the StoryGrid website, without knowing the surrounding POV. Her hair was a tangled mess of copper curls, wild and untamable That is something a POV character can see, and wild and...
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Hannah Faoileán reacted to Sedayne's post in the thread Craft Chat Character Descriptions-who else needs practice? with Like.
Interesting. Where is this from? '...height, hair color, eye color. While these details are essential...' I don't think I've been aware of any of these details in the novels I've read recently, so I wouldn't call them essential. The other...
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New blog post by Claire G Research I tend not to write novels that require a lot of research (regular readers will be aware that I write romance/fantasy and psychological suspense-type books). I’ve got to admit, I don’t know how writers of...